Bud's Vital Friend Like a deer needs the grass, this book needs Lefty Lewis! Bud, Not Buddy is about an orphan who travels to Grand Rapids in hopes of finding his father. His mother passed away when he was six. Then, he was sent to an orphanage with nothing but a suitcase. Nothing was going to stop him from finding his father! Bud, Not Buddy would be a completely different book if Lefty Lewis wasn't a character in the story because Bud probably would've died of starvation on the way, he probably wouldn't have made it to Grand Rapids, he wouldn't have met Herman and the band, and he would still be homeless. To begin with, Bud probably would've died of starvation on the way. In Chapter 10, Bud meets Lefty Lewis. If he had died,
