Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Jumping The Scratch


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Jumping the Scratch

By Sarah Weeks

I really enjoyed this book about a young boy who moves to live with his aunt who recently suffered from a brain injury and whose father moves away.  His mother works nights at the local cherry canning factory so he doesn't see her much.  It's a kind of sad, but very real, story of a young boy and how life is hard for him.  It takes a while for him to come to terms with a traumatic event that happened when he first moved and it isn't revealed to the reader until very late in the book, but it's tactfully discussed and something I think kids can easily relate to. 

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