Itch
By: Michelle D. Kwasney.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780805080834
Subjects: Grandparents -- Juvenile fiction; Mothers -- Juvenile fiction; Child abuse -- Juvenile fiction; Friendship -- Juvenile fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction; Grandparents -- Fiction; Mothers -- Fiction; Child abuse -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Ohio -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction; Ohio -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: 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.