JACKSON JONES CAN'T get away from roses. First his mother got him a plot at Rooter's, a community garden where Jackson planted a rosebush of thorns and no blooms. Now Mr. K., a fellow gardener, enlists Jackson's help to rustle up some rare old-time roses. The kind that grow in cemeteries And no sooner do Jackson and his friend Reuben take the rose cutting home than Reuben's gloom-and-doom talk of curses seems real.
Mary Quattlebaum's JACKSON JONES AND THE CURSE OF THE OUTLAW ROSE tells of Jackson, who can't get away from roses between his mother and a fellow gardener. But Mr. K. needs help obtaining some rare old-time roses that grow in cemeteries - and which may provoke a centuries-old curse. Can it be a string of bad luck - or has Jackson put himself and his friends in danger? An excellent mystery for ages 8-12 evolves.
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