Following My Own Footsteps (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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If we missed the morning train, Mama might change her mind before the next one came. Instead of leaving, she'd head back home and wait for the cops to let the old man go. We'd never get out of College Hill. Never get away from the old man...

After Gordy's abusive father is arrested, Gordy and his family go to stay with Gordy's maternal grandmother in North Carolina. Gordy starts out being as big a troublemaker as ever, but develops a grudging respect for Grandma when she is firm but fair with him. He also begins a promising friendship with William, the boy next door, who is confined to his wheelchair by polio.
Then Gordy's father shows up and wants to move the family to California. Gordy has suffered too much at the old man's hands to believe he's turned over a new leaf. But if Gordy doesn't stay with his family, where will he go? Who would want him?
As Gordy wrestles with these questions, Mary Downing Hahn skillfully weaves into the background the world-changing events of 1945. This companion story to Stepping on the Cracks is as compelling as its award-winning predecessor.