Jerry's Magic - Softcover

Rowe's inspired, often wacky tale is full of surprises, narrative as well as spiritual. It's what you might get if Huck Finn stumbled into the middle of The Razor's Edge. Young readers may be entranced by it, they may be challenged by it, but they won't forget it. This is not your mother's Goodnight Moon!--Dean Sluyter, author of Fear Less and Natural Meditation

Rowe, a former college professor and author of literary criticism, turns his hand to a fiction series for middle-grade readers with the story of Jerry Shore. The novel is set in the U.S. just after WWII, and Jerry and his mother are mourning his father's death in the war. When Jerry's mother tells him that he is now responsible for their well-being, he determines to make as much money as possible. Not all of his moneymaking schemes work out, and not all of them are honest, but along the way Jerry foils a bank robbery and meets the Wonderworker, a man who puts Jerry in touch with his own highest nature. Jerry's life and the lives of his friends and family are changed in unexpected and wonderful ways as a result of the knowledge the Wonderworker imparts. Readers will find much to enjoy in Jerry's humor, his resiliency, and in the way he meets challenges head on.--Publishers Weekly, 07/28/2014

Ten-year-old Jerry Shore learns magic from the Wonderworker by the junkyard and sells magical objects to his friends, but instead of swindling them, he may be learning an ethical lesson.