The jazz kid
By: James Lincoln Collier.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Holt
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, NY
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.