Goodreads synopsis: 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.
He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.
His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!
Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. 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 himself.
My rating: 4 stars.
Content warnings: G. A character gets hit several times, and cut and scraped in various tumbles and situations. A character is transporting blood for medical reasons and gets misunderstood.
Thoughts: The story itself seems pretty standard, but Bud's voice is fantastic and totally worth reading the book for. He calls it like he sees it and makes no bones about any of it. It's great.
Although there's not really a sense of time and place as far as the history goes, it still might be a good supplement for reading about Depression-era America. But without knowing, I didn't realize that's when the book was set until it was almost over.
Really short and easy to read, but it's a fun story and the ending is pretty sweet as well.
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