The jazz kid

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Parent and child,  Jazz,  Musicians,  Jazz -- Fiction.,  Children's fiction,  Jazz, fiction,  Musicians, fiction,  Chicago (ill.), fiction,  Parent and child, fiction

Places: Chicago (Ill.)