Checking on the Moon - Hardcover

Davis, Jenny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 053105960X ISBN 13: 9780531059609

Publisher: Orchard Books, 1991

Synopsis

While spending the summer helping her grandmother run a restaurant in a decaying, dangerous neighborhood on the edge of Pittsburgh, thirteen-year-old Cab meets many colorful characters and helps with the neighborhood crime watch

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From the Inside Flap:

s never met her grandmother or been to the town where she lives. But when Cab's mother and new stepfather takes off to Europe for the summer, Cab and her older brother find themselves stuck in Washco, Pennsylvania. The streets are dirty and drab, and Cab is afraid she'll never make friends.
But Cab's summer job waitressing in her grandmother's restaurant--EATS--proves to be a great way to meet people, including her new friend, Tracy. Slowly Cab comes to love the neighborhood and the restaurant's colorful coffee drinkers.
Then the even fabric of summer in Washco is ripped apart when terrible crimes are committed against the residents. Cab and Tracy join a crusade to restore safety to the streets of the place that has become home to Cab. But by summer's end Cab finds the future has another home in store for her.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 053105960X
• ISBN 13: 9780531059609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208