| A | B |
|---|
| Bud's suitcase | cardboard tied with twine |
| Blue Flyer | Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression |
| Herman E. Calloway | Bud's grandfather who he thinks is his dad |
| Ticonderoga | The brand pencil Todd Amos shoves in Bud's nose up to the "R" |
| Bugs | has a roach crawl in his ear, he and Bud mix spit and decide to ride the rails together |
| Flint Michigan | where Bud lives at beginning of book |
| Hooverville | the name for cardboard temporary villages, people who ride rails hang out in them, named after President Hoover |
| Bud Caldwell | sleeps under tree outside library |
| Deza Malone | Bud's first kiss |
| Grand Rapids Michigan | Home of Herman Calloway, Bud decides to hitchhike there |
| Lefty Lewis | gives Bud a ride, has box of blood in car |
| Members of Herman Calloway's band | Jimmy. Steady Eddie, Doo-Doo Bug, Dirty Deed, the Thug |
| Miss Thomas | singer (vocal stylist) in Herman Calloway's band |
| Always a white man in the band | Because only a white man can sign the paperwork/contracts the band makes |
| Angela Janet Caldwell | Bud's mother, Herman Calloway's daughter |
| Todd Amos | bully |
| rocks with writing on them of place names | in Bud's suitcase, Herman Calloway has them also |
| picture of his mother, rocks, blue flyer advertising band | things Bud keeps in his suitcase |
| Author encourages us to talk to our relatives because ________________ | we shoud take an interest in our history |
| Lefty Lewis and Herman Calloway are based on _____________ | relative of the author who lived during the Great Depression |
| Another BB book that mentions the Great Depression | Make Your Mark Franklin Roosevelt |
| things that happen to Bud at age 6 | he is beaten at foster home for not understanding, tooth falls out and he wonders what will fall off next |
| Christopher Paul Curtis | Author of Bud, Not Buddy |
| why Bud looked at books about the Civil War | he liked the gory pictures in these library books |
