Jumping the Scratch

Jamie Reardon is certain that misfortune always arrives in sets of three. Three of them have already hit: his cat, Mister, has died, his father has walked out, and his aunt Sapphy has had an accident that makes her memory skip. Jamie just wants life to settle back into its usual rhythm, but one more painful event is still to come, one he would prefer never to think about. It leaves him feeling unsure of who he is.

Jamie searches for some special trigger that could fix Sapphy's memory, but the answers turn out to come from Sapphy herself and from Audrey Krouch, a curious girl who becomes his companion. Together they explore how memory works and help Jamie move past the sticking point in his own life.