I can't delete an app

I am stumped. I tried updating an app on my son's iPod Touch and it got stuck in "waiting" mode. I did everything I could to get it started again, but no luck. So far I have tried waiting, tapping the app icon to get it to restart, signed out and back in on the app store, restarted the iPod, did a hard restart, plugged it in to iTunes and tried updating it that way, tried deleting it on the iPod (no X appears) and finally I just tried deleting the app through iTunes. According to iTunes the app is gone after I synced the iPod, but it is still showing the icon on the iPod in "Waiting" mode. I have tried reinstalling through iTunes as well, and it will show the status bar at the bottom of the app on the iPod and indicate it is installing, but when it finishes, it goes back to the "Waiting" phase and is greyed out. The App store on the iPod shows the app as "installing". I can't get it to do anything!
I know that I could potentially reset the whole thing, but his iPod is full of Minecraft worlds and he would be devastated if he lost those. I have backed it up, but I'm worried the backup contains this faulty app as well, since we did the update prior to plugging the iPod in and backing up. There should be plenty of room on the iPod for the app to load properly and I can get other apps to load, buy others from the app store on the iPod, and have updated several other apps in the process of getting this one updating.
Anyone have any ideas??? I am stumped! I can't find any reference to anything like this anywhere online (or at least I can't figure out how to search for it.) Please help a 7 year old and his mom out!

Not sure if this is any help, but I had the exact same issue.
Go to the App Store on your device, click Purchased.
Scroll through to find the apps that are phantom, or in my case grayed out/can't delete.
Chances are you'll see the cloud icon where it normally might say install. Click the cloud and it will look like its installing the app to your device. However, after the "install" completed, I noticed the app was simply no longer on my device. Voila..
Very mysterious and glitchy. And I tried every other method before this (sync, hard reset, signing out and in, changing wifi networks, etc..). Hope this works

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