Of Leaf, Wing, and Water

"I am about to tell you a story I don't yet understand.

Wonder and Mystery will be among its main characters..."

How far do ripples travel after a pebble is dropped into a pond? And how profoundly can a simple message-even one that is vague and of questionable veracity-change the recipient and his community of family and friends?

When his family takes in an elderly and eccentric relative, ten-year-old Jesse Shea can only watch and cope with the disruption. But it isn't long before he has a s...