The Welcome Chair series-Hand-Me-Down Magic a wooden whale

a wooden whale

the recently orphaned teenager inherits the family mansion—and its contents

In this enchanting

she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor

The Welcome Chair series-Hand-Me-Down Magic a wooden whaleBased in part on a 100 year old family journal, Rosemary Wells brings to life a story that the diarys fragile pages tell. Its the story of a wooden rocking chair handmade in about 1825 by her great great grandfather, an immigrant Jewish boy who made his way to America from Germany in the early 1800s. In 1807, Sam Siegbert is born in southern Germany. Sams favorite pastime is carpentry, much to his fathers displeasure. His mother says he has a gift