A pulsating, powerful tale of the blues, from one of the great American writers of the twentieth centuryIt is Chicago in the 1950s and Manfred Banks has the Dirty Bird Blues. A musician and a blue-collar worker, he feels hard the tug of his two responsibilities: those to his wife and child, and those ...
A middle grade novel telling the story of Maggie Blue, an outsider both at home and at school, who sees a fellow classmate stolen through a window to another world by a wolf, and becomes determined to save her whatever the cost.