Aunt Cora’s Wart, An Historical Faerie Tale: Nipper Fest!

Join Jenna Long in an amazing, magical, and historical adventure! This story begins in Camden, New Jersey, where Jenna, age 9, is visiting her grandmas in their apartment on the fifth floor of the renovated Nipper Building, the birthplace of the recording industry. While scurrying down the stairs to meet Buckadee and Grandma Butch ("GB") at the elevator door, Jenna stumbles upon the lair of her great-great-great Aunt Cora, and the adventure begins. Aunt Cora taps her magical wart and takes Jenna back to 1926, the year of the Sesquicentennial. Camden comes to life as Jenna and Cora party with some remarkable singers, musicians, and Mr. Eldridge Johnson, the founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company. Later, while riding with Aunt Cora and the famous Geraldine Farrar in her Stutz Bearcat Roadster Convertible across the brand new Delaware River Bridge (now called the Ben Franklin), Jenna spies Cora's brother Emory flying by in a biplane with his "See the Sesqui by Air!" banner waving in the wind. Emory Conrad Malick was, in fact, the world's first licensed black pilot, and Camden's hero--still unknown and still unsung. In fact, this book is packed full of hidden gems of history--from Camden to Philadelphia, to central Pennsylvania where Jenna learns about black aviation...and about discrimination. She also meets her mysterious and mischievous Aunt Alice, who tells her about the Witches of Winnengen. On the flight back to Camden, Jenna and Uncle Emory get lost in a bizarre fog. Will Jenna be able to return to 2016 in time to meet her grandmas at the elevator door, and then participate in the Nipper Fest? Or has Aunt Cora lost her powers?