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1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations |
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| Summary |
From beloved Newbery Honor winner and three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia comes a powerful and heartfelt novel about loss, family, and love that will appeal to fans of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander. 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. |
| Audience |
710L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 4 189070 |
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Accelerated Reader MG 4.4 4 189070 |
| Summary |
Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Fiction.
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Blues (Music) -- Fiction.
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Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
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Grandfathers -- Death -- Fiction.
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Bereavement -- Fiction.
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Family life -- Fiction.
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Children's stories.
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Children's stories. |
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Electronic books. |
| Added Author |
Morrison, Frank, 1971- illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Williams-Garcia, Rita. Clayton Byrd goes underground New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] 9780062215918 (NjBwBT)bl2017016834 (OCoLC)957240924 |
| ISBN |
9780062215949 : $16.99 |
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0062215949 : $16.99 |
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