- Checking on the Moon
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Checking on the Moon Author(s) Jenny Davis Country United States Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Orchard Books Publication date 1991 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 208 pp ISBN ISBN 0-531-05960-X OCLC Number 23254639 LC Classification PZ7.D2923 Ch 1991 Checking on the Moon is a young-adult novel by the American writer Jenny Davis. It is set during the 1980s in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, working-class district of Washco (fictionalized). The protagonist is 13 year-old Cab Jones, who has arrived from Blue Cloud, Texas, with her older brother Bill to spend the summer with Grandmother, who runs a neighborhood restaurant called EATS. The kids are shocked by the ruins of industrial life in Washco, but adjust and try to help the community to recover.[1]
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Categories:- 1991 novels
- American young adult novels
- Novels set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 1980s in fiction
- Young adult novel stubs
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