Katie Nash novels
Author
2) Joy school
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Series
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Katie is new to her Missouri town, living alone with a stern, inaccesible father following her mother's death. Unable to fit in at school, she forges alliances wherever she can: with the housekeeper, a pimply fellow misfit, and a 23 year old propietor of a local gas station, who shares her love for checkers but doesn't return her crush.