Daddy Played the Blues

*Notable Social Studies Trade Books Selection for Young People 2018*

"I was six years old the day we left the farm in Mississippi," remembers Cassie in this richly textured picture book. "Between the boll weevils, the floods, and the landlord, there was no way a family could scratch out a living there anymore."

Packing themselves into an old jalopy-with Daddy, Uncle Vern, and Mama in the front seat and Cassie and her two brothers in the back-they joined the Great Migration from the impoverish...