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Clayton Byrd goes underground
Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping he can join them on the road. But on the journey that takes him through the New York City subways and to Washington Square Park, Clayton learns some things that surprise him.
Item details
- ISBN: 0062215914
- ISBN: 9780062215918
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Physical Description:
166 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Contents / Notes
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 8-12. |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 4.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz #189070. Reading Counts 3-5 4.4 8.0 70981. Lexile 710L. F&P V. |
| Awards Note: | A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.) Horn Book Fanfare List, 2017 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, 2017. School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017 NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens, 2018 |
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| Genre: | Blues (Music) Juvenile works. Fiction. Bildungsromans. Family. Juvenile. Fiction. Contemporary realistic fiction. Bildungsromans. Children's stories. Blues (Music) Fiction. |
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