The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman by Robin Gregory

This is a beautifully crafted, clever story broken up into 3 separate books. Moojie is an orphan left at the door of a church in a little town off of the coast of California at the beginning of the 1900's. A town where the folks are settled in their ways, still believers of mythical stories and have a tremendous hatred for the Natives of the land. Truthfully I believe it's more of an ignorance-driven fear then hatred, like most bigots the town folk are quick shoot and slow to aim.

The first 6 years of Moojie's life pass by quite uneventfully. Save for the family that adopted him, the strange and miraculous situations that happen when he's excited or angry. His inability to walk or talk and the eventual sudden death of his mother. Poor Moojie's life at 6 changed drastically. After the death of his mother, his father decided he could no long be a parent and abandoned his poor crippled speech-impaired son on his Father, Captain Finnegan, or Pappy as he comes to be known.

For the next 6 years Moojie grows old and more embittered with his life, or lack thereof until he happens across a band of what he assumed to be Natives or Hostiles as the Town folk refer to them. Moojie the spends every waking moment in an attempt to persuade the strange mountain folk to allow him to join their ranks. Eventual difficulties, jealousy issues and an inevitable disaster inhibits Moojie from finding what he then thought was happiness among the tribe as a family of his own and instead finally realizes the  family that has always been in front of him. The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman was a superbly written coming of age tale that I would suggest to everyone.

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