# Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

**Author:** Rita Williams-Garcia
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 2017
**Page count:** 176
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781432850531`
**ISBN-10:** `0062215949`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/clayton-byrd-goes-underground
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.

## Themes

- death
- grandparent and child
- bereavement
- grandfathers

## Where this book is assigned

### Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Louisiana Readers' Choice Awards), Grades 3-5 & Grades 6-8 divisions

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