Itch
Synopsis:
In 1968, after the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores "Itch" Colchester and her grandmother move from Florida to an Ohio trailer park, where she meets new people and, when she learns that a friend is being abused by her mother, tries her best to emulate her plain-spoken grandfather.
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Topics/Categories:
1968, Child Abuse, Death, Florida, Friendship, Grandparents, Mothers, Ohio, Schools, Sixth Grade
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Henry Holt
Original Publish Date:
2008-04-29
ISBNs:
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8083-4 ISBN-10: 0-8050-8083-X
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Publishing Notes:
After the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores Colchester, better known as “Itch,” moves with her grandmother from Florida to Ohio. Starting over is hard, and Itch feels like an outsider in her new school, until she becomes friends with popular baton-twirling Gwendolyn. On the outside, Gwendolyn seems perfect: talented, smart, and beautiful. But she has a dark secret, which Itch begins to suspect and soon discovers is true. “Speaking up takes courage,” Gramps had always told Itch, and she’s about to discover just how much. Michelle D. Kwasney weaves a compelling story about child abuse, family, and friendship against the backdrop of the late 1960s.
Formats:
Hardcover, Henry Holt, April 2008 Audio book, Recorded Books, July 2008
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