Having reached his destination, Bud's search must continue. A very kind man who turns out to be a labor union organizer finds Bud hiding at the side of the road near a very intolerant village and takes Bud home to his own family before transporting him to his supposed father.

At the mission where Bud is too late for the evening meal, another homeless family pretends that he's with them. There are, of course, many set-backs on the way and many people who lend a hand. Bud is convinced that his father must be Herman F. After pausing to wreak a funny, mild vengeance, Bud strikes out on his own, determined to walk from Flint, Michigan to Grand Rapids, the city listed in one of the flyers. Soon he is farmed out to a foster home where he is abused. Calloway and various bands, a few mysteriously labeled rocks and his blanket. He holds all the remnants of his once loving home in a cardboard suitcase: some flyers advertising Herman E. He belongs right in there with Maniac Magee ( ) and others of their ilk who enlighten the human experience for readers and make us wish we could step into the action to help.īud's mother has been dead for four years when this novel opens and Bud is in an orphanage. Meet Bud, not Buddy, one of the most delightful young people you'll ever know. Such is the skill of Christopher Paul Curtis that we take all that and more with hardly a nod toward the percentages.

In this Newbery Award winning book we are asked to believe that a ten-year-old boy, without resources other than his own self-constructed list of rules 'to Have a Funner Life and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself', will find love, a home and a real family.

Bud not buddy