num_pages: 224
description: Playing the cornet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has ever taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the tough underworld of Chicago in the 1920s. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Jazz Kid
titlecomplete: The Jazz Kid
genres: Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 26
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Puffin