The silver penny
By: Randall Wright
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780805073911
Subjects: Accidents; Talismans; Family life; Fiction; Supernatural; Wounds and injuries; Farm life; Luck
Description: A rare silver coin and a mysterious red-haired boy seem entangled in eleven-year-old Jacob "Deb" Corey's fate when he is laid up with a badly broken leg on his family's farm in the mid-1800s, just after performing a hex to cure his wanderlust.