Where's My Wand?: One Boy's Magical Triumph over Alienation and Shag Carpeting

Authors: Poole, Eric
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: BIO026000, BIO007000, BIO031000
ISBN: 9781101187784, Related ISBNs: 0399156550, 0425241017, 1101187786, 9780399156557, 9780425241011
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: "Gut-splittingly funny...a deeply moving account of a boy's attempt to control his world with his own brand of magic." --People magazine, 4 stars.

Tracey Ullman once described Eric Poole as "the best undiscovered writer I ever met." Now the world can enjoy his achingly honest wit and gift for capturing real life characters in this memoir about growing up in the 1970's with an obsessive-compulsive mother and a crush on Endora from Bewitched.
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