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Eight-year old Jesse Hall and his pregnant mother move to the "Eden of America," a small rural town in Ohio, to escape an abusive father addicted to gambling and alcohol.There, Jesse is bullied by the most popular school kid, denied a church experience by a self-righteous preacher, and threatened with foster care by a well-meaning social worker.Can Jesse fulfill his dream of a normal family with his own parents and brothers and sisters? See what he does with the help of a fatherless eight-year old girl, the lovely Five and Dime clerk, and a mummified corpse.

For over four years, Jesse's father's addiction to alcohol and gambling deprives Jesse and his mom of basic necessities, overwhelming twelve-year-old Jesse Hall. He feels a need to help his family, but it causes him to neglect school so much that he is in danger of repeating the sixth grade. Jesse forges his mom's name on his grade card and makes other bad choices. He thinks a lie will cover up his misdeed and is sure his sin is redeemable.Jesse blames all his problems on his father's drinking and gambling and yearns for him to reform. Then, at the County Fair Jesse sees the worst in his dad and learns more about his past.The church finds a new pastor and his wife who offer Jesse a path to his own redemption. At the same time, Jesse's two-and-a-half-year-old sister is suspected of being a source of healing and is sought after by church members who are suffering. "Only God and medicine can heal," says the family doctor.Can a newly formed AA group turn Jesse's dad around? Can a Confirmation retreat unbridle amazing talents of Jesse and his five close friends? How can a visit to a corpse on display in a nearby town right a wrong done to one of Jesse's friends? Does Jesse's dad get the help he needs? Does Jesse's sister truly have the power to heal people?Jesse's Dream is the third and final book in Victor Hess' Searching for Family series and is the launching pad for the Wesley Club Adventures series soon to be released.If you like Summer by the Woods by Steven K. Smith or Secret Lake by Karen Ingles, and the Red Rock Mystery series by Jerry B. Jenkins, you will like Jesse's Dream.

It's 1955 in small-town Ohio, where kids play Cowboys and Indians, ash trays sit on every kitchen table, and ten-year-old Jesse Hall dreams of buying a Schwinn Corvette bicycle. Only problem is, he uses his hard-earned money to help his mom. His days are spent delivering the newspaper and babysitting his baby sister, making her fried bologna sandwiches while his mom hems trousers for income. The struggling family is rescued by a marriage of convenience, but for how long?At his new home his life takes an unexpected turn when at Little League practice his grip falters on the bat and his life is completely changed. From the hospital storyteller, he learns about the legend of the Shawnee Indian treasure buried at the edge of his new town. He has plenty of time for it to consume his hopes and the chase begins.Is it gold? Silver? Or just a pile of Indian relics. Discover with Jesse, this unexpected treasure in the second book of the Searching for Family Series.

As far as thirteen-year-old Montana MacCarthy is concerned every animal in the Glen Helen Forest is under her protection. That goes double for the pair of American Bald eagles nesting in the oak on Talus Trail. When the Glen director asks her and the Wesley Club to create a kid-friendly pamphlet about the animals as a summer project, they jump at the chance.Montana guides them through the forest as they sketch and photograph bobcats, foxes, skunks, bats, and, yes, the eagles. Their project uncovers a ring of poachers who are desperate to get the Glen's only two American Bald Eagles and a family of beavers.Will Montana and her friends be able to stop the poachers? Can an illegal auction of protected animals be stopped in time for the law to intervene? Watch the Wesley Club in action using their special skills in their second episode of the Wesley Club Adventures and their most dangerous encounter yet.