A HITCH AT THE FAIRMONT
Jim Averbeck
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
2014
Available:
paperback, hard copy & Kindle
Eleven-year-old Jack
is orphaned. The year is 1956. His father died in the war before Jack could get
to know him. Now is mother has died in an "accident." He doesn't want
to think about how or why it happened. After her funeral he is collected by an
aunt he hasn't met. She lives at the famous Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
Living in such opulent luxury you'd think he'd moved to easy street, but this
is not
