This summer vacation adventure novel tells the story of Owen Jester, his best friends Travis and Stumpy, and their "frenemy" Viola. Owen and his family live with his ailing grandfather and his nasty housekeeper Earlene in rural Georgia. Owen recently captured a bullfrog in the family pond and he is struggling to find a way to keep the bullfrog alive and happy. One night while Owen is falling asleep listening to the sounds of the "free" bullfrogs in Graham Pond, he hears a mysterious thud, and then a crack and then a tumble, tumble, tumble as the nightly train rattles through the field behind his house. Owen convinces his friends to help him look for the source of the mysterious sound he heard as the train passed by in the middle of the night. What they find is beyond imagination and what they do with it is truly amazing.
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