num_pages: 30
description: Return to a time when jukeboxes kindled dreams...Donna drops a nickel into the jukebox. With a whirr and a click the record falls into place and Elvis begins singing "Blue Suede Shoes". The jukebox flashes red, yellow, and green as she dances to the beat. Donna's grandfather is a jukebox man. He has jukeboxes in dozens of diners, fish camps, and truck stops all over the state. Poppaw makes his rounds -- changing records and fixing the machines. And as the jukeboxes throw patches of light on the floor, Donna discovers a whole new world.Jacqueline Ogburn's engaging story and James Ransome's sensitive paintings recapture a time when jukeboxes played the latest tunes and a young girl and her grandfather could share a special day.
language: English
title: The Jukebox Man
titlecomplete: The Jukebox Man
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Dial