This book is at the top of my favorite books list. This book is inspiring and life changing in my opinion. It's about a girl, and her grandfather calls her "Itch". She lives in Florida and has a best friend and sister. (They exchanged blood so they're kinda both) Itch's grandfather sadly dies and they move to a trailer park in Ohio. (That's the state I live in!) She grieves and grieves and grieves and finally moves on. That's all I want to tell you because I don't want to totally spoil it for you! But either way, this book is really magical in my opinion and just shows everything that could really be happening to people in the world right now. It's realistic fiction, and it lives up to its genre, this book is super realistic. And the details really made me feel like I was inside the book and experiencing it with Itch. If you want something REALISTIC and INSPIRATIONAL then read this book right now.
Itch
By Michelle D. Kwasney
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 5 - 7 | Grades 2 - 8 | V | n/a | n/a |
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.
Itch is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
ISBN-13: 9780805080834
ISBN-10: 080508083X
Published on 4/29/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256