Eddie of Jackson's Gang

Author(s): Brother Ernest Ryan

Genre(s): Action & Adventure, Family

Narrators: Maria Therese

Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 3 hours and 42 minutes

Language: English

Eddie. That is the only name our young, musically talented hero knew for himself. After being left at a Catholic orphanage as a young child, at the age of nine he is unwittingly adopted into a gang of thieves. Will he be able and maintain his innocence and escape their clutches? And will he ever be able to discover his true parentage?

Brother Ernest Ryan was a Holy Cross Brother, the founder of and a prolific author for the Dujarie Press, a Catholic publishing house of Juvenile Saint books for children in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He wrote numerous juvenile biographical saint books for children, as well as several children’s fictional titles – of which this is one. (Summary by Maria Therese)