Title: Following my own footsteps
Description: When Gordy Smith and his down-and-out family go to live with his rich grandmother, Gordy brings with him all the hostilities of an abused child whose drunken father has beaten him regularly. His no-nonsense grandmother and his friendship with a boy who uses a wheelchair change his perspective and life.
Subjects: Grandmothers in fiction, Parent and child in fiction, Family violence, World War, 1939-1945 in fiction, Grandmothers, Fiction, Parent and child, World War, 1939-1945, Family violence in fiction, Children's fiction, Parent and child, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction
Places: United States