BUD NOT BUDDY HOW TO

Dear old dad, unfortunately, doesn't want much to do with poor Bud, but the other band members are nicer and invite Bud to dinner. In Grand Rapids, Bud confronts his father and his father's jazz band. Bud gets to sleep in a real bed at Lefty's daughter's house, and Lefty gives Bud a lift to the Rapids. On his hike to faraway Grand Rapids, Bud meets Lefty Lewis, who picks him up by bribing him with food.

BUD NOT BUDDY HOW TO

When Bud misses the train, he goes back to Flint, and a nice librarian helps him figure out how to get to Grand Rapids, where Calloway lives. At the shantytown, Bud meets Deza Malone, who turns out to be a good friend. So, Bud meets up with Bugs, a boy from the home, and together they go to Hooverville, the shanty town in Flint, in order to hop a train to California to get jobs. Oh, and did we mention that Bud is looking for a place to finally call home? Sounds pretty tough, right? He's looking for a guy whose picture was on some old flyers for jazz concerts his mother kept around their house, so he doesn't have too much to go on. He meets many kind people along the way who help him complete his most awesome quest: to find the man that he thinks is his father. On his own, he finds out how rough it is in Michigan in 1936, during the Great Depression. He's sick of being an orphan: unwanted, unloved, and all alone.

So, it's been four years since his mom died, and ten-year-old Bud Caldwell takes off from his third foster home in search of a better way to live his life. You want a good story? We'll give you a good story-er, at least, the run down of one.

Bud not buddy