When everything around you is going wrong, how far would you go to fit in?Isaac\'s sixth grade year gets off to a rough start.
For one thing, a tornado tears the roof off the school cafeteria.
This engaging debut is perfect for fans of See You in the Cosmos and Fish in a Tree..
Whether you root for the Buckeyes or have no clue who they are, you\'ll be drawn into Itch\'s world immediately.
And he\'s not the only one.
When you have no friends at all, wouldn\'t you do anything--even something you know you shouldn\'t--to get them back?Drawing on her own experiences with idiopathic angioedema and food allergies, Polly Farquhar spins a tale of kids trying to balance the desire to be ordinary with the need to be authentic--allergies, itches, confusion and all.
For everyone who\'s ever felt out of place, this debut novel set in the Ohio heartland is a warm, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking look at middle school misfits and misadventures.
When Sydney collapses and an ambulance is called, Itch blames himself.
He\'s doing the best he can to get along--until everything goes wrong in the middle of a lunch swap.
And most of the guys at school are okay to hang out with, even if they\'re crazy about college football, and Itch could care less.
It\'s why everyone calls him Itch--everyone except his best friend Sydney, the only one in all of Ohio who\'s always on his side, ever since he moved here.
At least Itch has his job at the pheasant farm, which is tough but cool.
It\'s everything.
It starts small, but it spreads, and soon--it\'s everywhere.
Idiopathic, which means no one knows what causes it.
It comes out of nowhere. there\'s the itch. . . .
And as always.
His mother leaves on a two month business trip to China.
When everything around you is going wrong, how far would you go to fit in?Isaac\'s sixth grade year gets off to a rough start.
For one thing, a tornado tears the roof off the school cafeteria
