Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

by Rita Williams-Garcia

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062215914
• ISBN13: 9780062215918
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Quill Tree Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7