Jamie Reardon has always heard that bad things come in threes. So after his cat, Mister, dies, his father leaves, and his aunt Sapphy has an accident that causes her memory to develop a skip, Jamie hopes his life will go back to being as normal as cornflakes. But unfortunately there's one more bad thing in store for Jamiesomething he'd give anything to be able to forgetand this one leaves him feeling like a stranger to himself. Jamie tries in vain to find the magic trigger that will help Sapphy's memory jump the scratch, but in the end it's Aunt Sapphy who, along with a curious girl named Audrey Krouch, helps Jamie unravel the mysteries of memory and jump the scratch in his own life.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by HarperCollins .

SARAH WEEKS is the award-winning author of numerous picture books and middle grade novels, including "Overboard!, " illustrated by Sam Williams, and "So B. It. " She lives in New York City.