Clayton Byrd goes underground

Resource Information

The work Clayton Byrd goes underground represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wilmington Memorial Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Clayton Byrd goes underground

Statement of responsibility

Rita Williams-Garcia ; illustrations by Frank Morrison

Creator

• Williams-Garcia, Rita

Contributor

• Morrison, Frank, 1971-

Author

• Williams-Garcia, Rita

Illustrator

• Morrison, Frank, 1971-

Subject

• Bereavement -- Fiction
• Bereavement -- Juvenile fiction
• Blues (Music) -- Fiction
• Blues (Music) -- Juvenile fiction
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• Family life -- Fiction
• Grandfathers -- Death -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• Grandparent and child -- Fiction
• Grandparent and child -- Juvenile fiction
• Grandfathers -- Death -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• Blues (Music)

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Ages 8-12

LC call number

PZ7.W6713

LC item number

Cl 2017

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

pre adolescent