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Author:

Williams-Garcia, Rita, http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87875387 author.

Title:

Clayton Byrd goes underground / Rita Williams-Garcia ; illustrations by Frank Morrison.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Publisher:

Amistadan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

166 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Blues (Music)--Juvenile fiction.
Grandparent and child--Juvenile fiction.
Grandfathers--Juvenile fiction.--Juvenile fiction.
Bereavement--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780062215932
0062215930

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1001743634

Locations:

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

PFPC906 -- Eddyville Public Library (Eddyville)

EEPC605 -- George Public Library (George)

LASX353 -- CAL Community School District Library (Latimer)

GVPC501 -- Monroe Public Library (Monroe)

VQPC384 -- Reinbeck Public Library (Reinbeck)

BZPC851 -- Slater Public Library (Slater)

TVPD862 -- Louise & Lucile Hink -Tama Public Library (Tama)