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Book

3 of 3 Copies Available

  • CENTRAL: Children's Collection
  • EASTWOOD: Children's Collection
  • OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
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Jumping the scratch

Call Number

  • J WEEK (CEN, EAS, OSH)

Edition

1st Harper Trophy ed.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Laura Geringer Books/Harper Trophy, 2008.

Physical Description

167, 16 pages ; 20 cm

Audience

Ages 10 and up.

Summary

After moving with his mother to a trailer park to care for an injured aunt who has lost her short term memory, eleven-year-old Jamie Reardon tries to help Aunt Sapphy while struggling to cope with a deeply buried secret.

Notes

Includes Sarah Weeks on the writing of Jumping the scratch, tips about remembering, and a Reader's Theatre script.

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