Give away your pennies, and you get more coins that can start small miracles, which lead to bigger ones.
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Almost like manna from heaven, magic coins come to nine-year-old Coral Graf from The Man Upstairs through her heating vent. She lives on the Upper East Side of New York City and always wants to cause good in the world. She gives the pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollar coins away in her neighborhood and hopes to create miracles. Whenever she shares her coins with others, she gets more coins from The Man Upstairs. The stream of coins never stops and neither does the goodness with them.
Nine-year-old Coral Graf lives on the Upper East Side of New York City with her father and mother in a red brick high-rise apartment with many neighbors. Her father owns a local deli with Jewish delicacies that all the neighbors love. At least three days a week, her mother works as a telephone switchboard operator at the Empire State Building.
Ever since Coral was a baby, The Man Upstairs dropped pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollar coins through the heating vent. At first, her father yells at The Man Upstairs because he doesn’t want the coins. When The Man Upstairs continues to drop the coins, Mrs. Graf sets out a tin can in order to collect them. The Man Upstairs calls to Coral through the heating vent and tells her that he needs her to help the people in the neighborhood with his money. He also asks her not to keep the coins only for herself. Coral agrees and wonders how he got so much spare change. After the Grafs grow tired of giving the coins away and want to keep the money for themselves, The Man Upstairs stops dropping the coins. Believing in the power of small miracles to create bigger ones, Coral insists that she must give the coins away. Later, when Coral places the tin can under the apartment vent, more coins come out, faster than ever before.
The Man Upstairs only drops coins when someone from the Graf family gives the coins away. From that day on, Coral is in charge of the coins that fall into the tin can from The Man Upstairs. Visiting the Man Downstairs, The Man Next Door, The Man Across the Street, The Man Around the Corner, The Man from Central Park, and The Man from the Synagogue, she promises never to hoard the coins, but to do good with each penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, and dollar coin. The more coins The Man Upstairs gives her, the more she gives away. She might even be a millionaire; all because The Man Upstairs knows that she will keep her promise to him.
Copyright 2022 Jennifer Waters
