Hooverville Chapter Summaries

The caseworker at the foster care tells Bud and his friend, Bugs at breakfast that they found new foster homes for them. When the boys groan the caseworker tells them, although the nation is in depression, they are lucky to have foster families.
Bud gets mistreated by his new foster brother named Todd. Todd shoves a pencil up in Bud's nose, and claims that he got the pencil further in his nose than any other child before. As a reason, Bud runs away or as he says he is "on the lam." Bud wants to slip through the windows into the library's basement to spend the night, but he finds that they have been barred. However, Bud figures he could sleep under the Christmas tree in front of the library. Before taking his blanket out of his suitcase, he looks at the pictures of his mama and his long
He gets frightened and gets his pocket knife out. Then he finds Bugs standing there. Both boys agree that they will head west for opportunity. They got informed, that they have to go to Hooverville, and wait for the train. When Bud and Bugs get there they flip a coin to see who has to go and talk to the people sitting there. Bud loses the coin toss and goes and talk. He asks if this is Hooverville, and the people reply which one. The man says there are many Hoovervilles. Then the people say that this is the right Hooverville if they are looking for a loving and caring place. The next morning the boys awakened by people screaming. Bud understands that the train is trying to leave earlier than expected. Bud and Bugs run through the crowds of the other people who also wanted to get on. By the time the boy squeeze through the crowd, the train starts moving. They run after the train and Bugs is barely able to hop on. Bud also tries to get on but isn't able to. He walks back to Hooverville with the others who missed the train. When he gets back to the village he finds the Flint police having a standoff with the people at