# Going on Nine

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- Authors: [Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick](https://www.bookquiver.com/catherine-underhill-fitzpatrick)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2014-05-06

## Description

A child swipes her mother's ring, snatches her sister's nightgown, and runs outside to play " bride." She soon loses the ring, rips the gown, correctly assumes it's about to rain daggers, and runs away from home to find a better family. What happens next is a summer-long journey in which Grace Townsend rides shotgun in a Plymouth Belvedere, and hunkers in the back of a rattletrap vegetable truck, crawls into a crumbling tunnel, dresses up with a prom queen, and keeps vigil in the bedroom of a molestation victim. There are reasons why Grace remembers the summer of 1956 for the rest of her life. Those are just a few. Through the eyes of a child and the mature woman she becomes, we make the journey with Grace and discover important truths about life, equality, family, and the soul-searching quest for belonging.

## Editions

### Going on Nine

- Publisher: familius
- ISBN: 978-19-3962-912-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2014-05-06
- Language: en_GB