Williams-Garcia, Rita,

Clayton Byrd goes underground / [by] Rita Williams-Garcia ; illustrations by Frank Morrison. - First edition. - 166 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Amistad.

Clayton feels most alive when he is playing music with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen--he can't wait to join them, but then the unthinkable happens.

3-7. 8-12. 4.4. 710 Lexile.



9780062215918 0062215914

2016950351


Runaway children--Fiction.
Blues musicians--Fiction.
Blues music--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.


New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

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