Bibliograph

Clayton Byrd goes underground, Rita Williams-Garcia

Type

Label

Clayton Byrd goes underground, Rita Williams-Garcia

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Clayton Byrd goes underground

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

983834062

Responsibility statement

Rita Williams-Garcia

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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification