The jazz kid
By: James Lincoln Collier.
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Jazz -- Fiction.; Musicians -- Fiction.; Parent and child -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Description: Playing the cornet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has 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.
Notes: "First published in the United States of America by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1994"--T.p verso.