The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester By Barbra O’Connor

BY JACK GORDON

GenreThe Genre of the fantastic secret of Owen Jester is fantasy .This is because a couple of kids cant roll a submarine into a pond without getting caught .Also a railroad company would surely have been looking all over for a submarine.

Setting

The setting in The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester is totally mind blowing this story takes place in dark dreary woods and on a murky animal infested pond . Owen and his friends Travis and Stumpy sometimes camp out in an old barn to stay away from Viola .All of these places are where Owen Jester keeps his Fantastic secret from the world !

Summary

Owen jester is a very adventures boy who is very curious .He has a pet frog named Tooley he caught Tooley in Gram Pond he was the biggest frog in there . Owen has a maid named

Earlene who is very mean .When mom is gone Earlene takes over . Owen wanted to make a cage for Tooley Earlene did not like it still Owen slipped out and got his friends

Travis and Stumpy to help him . They used baling wire sticks and almost anything .Soon their arch enemy Viola came she always reuined every thing .She always got Owen in

trouble .Luckily she had no time to bother them. When they were done they put the cage in Gram Pond .That night Owen was thinking about Tooley to get the stress off he would

listen to a train that drove by his house . But there was something else a thud than a roll .The next morning Owen ran down to the tracks in the brush it was red it was a

submarine .Owen had to get it into the pond to look at the animals .How will Owen get the sub into the pond!?Right off the bat Owen wanted to get it into the pond .He asked

Travis and Stumpy to help him clear a path for the submarine to be pushed into the pond .The three of them worked for 2 days finally they cleared a path. Now Travis or

Stumpy did not want to do anything .So Owen’s last resort was viola he knew she was smart so she would know how to get the sub into the pond. She said she knew how she

got some logs and slid them under the sub they started to roll it and roll it soon they were only 5 yards away .Will Owen and Viola get the sub into the pond without getting caught

by anyone!?

Recommendation

I think The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester is good for people who like to do hands on nature stuff . This book has a lot keeping secrets and stuff like that for instense Owen kept a secret from every and that secret was a submarine ! So this book will make you feel like you are a character and really anyone would read it and love it!