TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Italian Americans
KW - college students
KW - social workers
KW - Polish Americans
KW - restaurant industry
KW - cobblers
KW - Cambodian Americans
KW - nuns
KW - priests
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Jenny Davis
AB - Cab Jones, 13, arrives in Pittsburgh from Texas to spend the summer helping her grandmother run a restaurant in a crime-ridden neighborhood. The fictitious working-class Washco at first shocks Cab, but she adjusts, meets colorful locals, and soon tries to help customers recover from the aftermath of deindustrialization.
C1 - 1980s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Oakland; Cathedral of Learning; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh; Mt. Washington; Duquesne Incline; North Side; South Side; Squirrel Hill; East
C4 - Children’s; Labor; Women’s
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Cab Jones, 13, arrives in Pittsburgh from Texas to spend the summer helping her grandmother run a restaurant in a crime-ridden neighborhood. The fictitious working-class Washco at first shocks Cab, but she adjusts, meets colorful locals, and soon tries to help customers recover from the aftermath of deindustrialization.
PB - Orchard Books
PP - New York
PY - 1991
RN - Jenny Davis (1953— ), born in Kentucky and raised in Pittsburgh, is a writer of children's books.
EP - 208 p.
TI - Checking on the Moon
ER -