(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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An idiom meaning to be on the run
On the lam
How old Bud is now
10 years old
The treat the man in Owasso offers Bud
Red Pop
“My heart started jumping around in my stomach” (Curtis 32).
Personification
Got to live with girls while Bud has to live with an older boy who will fight him
Jerry
The person Bud is ultimately looking for in this book
His father
The librarian Bud used to know
Miss Hill
Who locked Bud in the shed
The Amos Family
The man Bud thinks is his father
Herman E. Calloway
The place Bud used to live with Bugs and Jerry
The Home
How old Bud was when his mother died
6 years old
Where Bud visits with Bugs to learn about hopping trains
Hooverville
Bud's punishment for fighting Todd
The Shed
A collection of ideas Bud lives his life by
Bud's Rules and Things
“When one door closes, don’t worry, because another door opens” (Curtis 43).
Metaphor
Bud met this person in Hooverville
Deza Malone
Where Bud goes to learn how far he needs to walk
Library
The city Bud is traveling to in order to find his father
Grand Rapids
Bud's friend from the home
Bugs
The city Bud lives in
Flint
What Bud sees that makes him steal the car
Caution: Contains Human Blood
Used by the author to show that everyone in Hooverville is equal through there struggles
Orange
Something the family shares with Bud at the mission
Brown Sugar
What Bud finds in the shed
Vampire Bat
This person hates bedwetters
Mrs. Amos
This is where Bud got called "Clarence"
Soup Kitchen
Bud's last name
Caldwell
“Now there were about six thousand hornets flying around in the tiny shed” (Curtis 28).
Hyperbole
How Bud carries his treasures
Bud's Suitcase
This person fights Bud
Todd Amos
What makes Bud miss the train
The Blue Flyer
“...it sounded like there were six scared people locked up in the shed” (Curtis 21).
Simile
Free!
A sundown town Bud walks through
Owasso
This is what starts the fight between Bud and Todd
Pencil
