

Unfortunately for Wolf, magic has begun to go awry, and both he and Bonnie are killed while in the woods.

As soon as Caleb is gone, he announces that he and Master Robin's apprentice, Bonnie, are needed elsewhere and Oscar will have to run the shop in his stead. Wolf, who enjoys anything that makes Oscar uncomfortable, takes that opportunity to force Oscar into the public.

Master Caleb is called away to the continent, leaving Wolf and Oscar to handle the shop and its contents on their own. He is 11 years old and socially awkward, preferring to be by himself, or in the company of the many cats who live in the cellar under Master Caleb's shop as well. He is hired by Master Caleb - the first magician in at least a generation, to be his hand and look after the chores considered too menial for either himself or his apprentice, Wolf, to deal with. The Real Boy by Anne Ursu is a fictional tale about a young orphan named Oscar and his transition from childhood to boy of wood and then on to young adulthood.
