

He tries to escape using the door, but in the process, he is stung multiple times and gets cut on fish heads. However, Bud realizes too late that the bat is really a hornet’s nest. When he wakes up from his nap, he is frightened by what he thinks is a vampire bat and tries to kill it with a rake. Eventually he spreads a blanket and takes a nap.


Bud apologizes to them, though he doesn’t mean it, before Mr. She also refuses to give him back his suitcase to make sure he doesn’t steal anything before he leaves. Amos tells Bud that she will take him back to the Home in the morning and that he will have to sleep in the shed that night. Amos consoles Todd who pretends Bud has really hurt him, so Mrs. Amos interrupts the fight, she believes Todd’s story that Bud started the whole thing, though Todd is actually the one who started it by pushing a pencil in Bud’s nose and calling him “Buddy” instead of Bud, which is something Bud hates. He also reveals that shortly after his mother brought the last flyer home, he found her dead.Īt the Amoses’ house, Todd Amos and Bud fight. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!” Bud believes that the man in the blurry picture on the flyer is his father. Bud feels sad but doesn’t cry at the news that he is going to his third foster home because his eyes “don’t cry no more.” Bud prepares his suitcase for the journey by first making sure everything is in it, especially the flyers for a band called “ Herman E. The woman tells Bud about his new home with the Amoses and their 12-year-old son. A caseworker arrives at Bud Caldwell’s orphanage, the Home, and tells him and a boy named Jerry Clark that they have both been assigned to new foster homes.
