Jumping the Scratch
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Jumping the Scratch
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Spinella
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By:
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Sarah Weeks
About this listen
Jamie Reardon has always heard that bad things come in threes. So after his cat, Mister, dies, his father leaves, and his aunt Sapphy has an accident that causes her memory to develop a skip, Jamie hopes his life will go back to being as normal as cornflakes. But unfortunately there's one more bad thing in store for Jamie, something he'd give anything to be able to forget, and this one leaves him feeling like a stranger to himself.
Jamie tries in vain to find the magic trigger that will help Sapphy's memory jump the scratch, like the needle on her favorite Frank Sinatra record, but in the end it's Aunt Sapphy who, along with a curious girl named Audrey Krouch, helps Jamie unravel the mysteries of memory and jump the scratch in his own life.
Sarah Weeks' poignant characters and powerful prose come together in a story that is both heart wrenching and inspiring, another gem from the award-winning author of So B. It.
©2006 Sarah Weeks (P)2006 HarperCollins PublishersCritic Reviews
Audie Award Finalist, Children's Titles for Ages 8-11, 2007
"A powerful story of a child's pain." (Kirkus Reviews)