![]() One of my husband's grandsons (the 5th grader) asked me if I'd read this book and when I said 'no' (I hadn't heard of it), he told me it was good. ![]() ![]() While keeping its tone age-appropriate, 4.5 The voice of the 10-year-old, Bud ( not Buddy), in this novel is irrepressible and the setting of Flint, Michigan, during the Depression comes to life with tons of details but not a one of them ponderous. Well, if a boy, about to turn 11, takes the time to recommend a book to me, odds are I'm going to read it. Calloway himself.moreĤ.5 One of my husband's grandsons (the 5th grader) asked me if I'd read this book and when I said 'no' (I hadn't heard of it), he told me it was good. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him-not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!īud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. He has his own suitcase full of special things. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clu It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: He has his own suitcase full of special things.
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