Download or read book The Wonder Kid written by George Harrar and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1954, eleven-year-old Jesse James MacLean contracts polio, but with a friend's help and despite his unsympathetic father, he finds ways to prove that his spirit is still strong.