Sid Fleischman Books In Order

Mr. Mysterious Books In Order

  1. Mr. Mysterious & Co (1962)
  2. Mr. Mysterious’s Secrets of Magic (1975)

Adventures of McBroom Books In Order

  1. McBroom Tells the Truth (1966)
  2. McBroom and the Big Wind (1967)
  3. McBroom’s Ear (1969)
  4. McBroom’s Ghost (1971)
  5. McBroom’s Wonderful One-acre Farm (1972)
  6. McBroom’s Zoo (1972)
  7. McBroom the Rainmaker (1973)
  8. McBroom Tells a Lie (1975)
  9. Here Comes McBroom (1976)
  10. McBroom and the Beanstalk (1978)
  11. McBroom and the Great Race (1980)
  12. McBroom’s Almanac (1984)

Bloodhound Gang Books In Order

  1. The Bloodhound Gang in the Case of Princess Tomorrow (1981)
  2. The Bloodhound Gang in the Case of the Cackling Ghost (1981)
  3. The Bloodhound Gang in the Case of the Flying Clock (1981)
  4. The Bloodhound Gang in the Case of the Secret Message (1981)
  5. The Bloodhound Gang in the Case of the 264 Pound Burglar (1982)
  6. The Bloodhound Gang’s Secret Code Book (1983)

Novels

  1. By the Great Hornspoon! (1963)
  2. Chancy and the Grand Rascal (1966)
  3. The Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1966)
  4. Jingo Django (1971)
  5. Humbug Mountain (1978)
  6. The Whipping Boy (1986)
  7. Jim Ugly (1992)
  8. The 13th Floor (1995)
  9. Bandit’s Moon (1998)
  10. Bo & Mzzz Mad (2001)
  11. Disappearing Act (2003)
  12. The Giant Rat of Sumatra (2005)
  13. The White Elephant (2006)
  14. The Entertainer and the Dybbuk (2007)
  15. The Dream Stealer (2009)

Omnibus

  1. Look Behind You, Lady / The Venetian Blonde (2007)

Collections

  1. Jim Bridger’s Alarm Clock (1978)

Picture Books

  1. Longbeard the Wizard (1970)
  2. The Wooden Cat Man (1972)
  3. Secrets of Magic (1976)
  4. Kate’s Secret Riddle Book (1977)
  5. The Hey Hey Man (1984)
  6. The Scarebird (1988)
  7. A Carnival of Animals (2000)

Chapter Books

  1. The Ghost on Saturday Night (1974)
  2. Me and the Man on the Moon-Eyed Horse (1977)
  3. The Midnight Horse (1990)

Non fiction

  1. Abracadabra Kid (1996)
  2. Escape! (2006)
  3. Sir Charlie (2010)

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Sid Fleischman Books Overview

Mr. Mysterious & Co

A magic show is in town! See Jane float through the air. Watch the head in the box move its lips and talk that’s Paul behind the whiskers. See tall, light hearted Mr. Mysterious Pa himself make a cow lay an egg and a chicken give milk. Follow the adventures and high comedy of this family of magicians traveling in a show wagon through the Old West. The wonder workers are heading for California, where Pa intends to retire the show so that the kids can go to school. But the frontier has tricks of its own up its sleeve, and the magicians find themselves in hairbreadth escapes and nose to nose encounters with villains galore including the notorious and short tempered Badlands Kid. Mr. Mysterious & Company, otherwise known as the Hackett family, is a traveling magic show making its way across the country toward California. When this family pas*ses through town in their brightly painted wagon, anything can happen even the capture of a notorious bandit, the Badlands Kid! Here is the Newbery Medalist’s first book for children, reissued for a new generation of readers.

McBroom Tells the Truth

‘There’s been so much tomfool nonsense told about McBroom’s wonderful one acre farm.’ It’s a good thing Farmer Josh McBroom is back, setting matters straight in this pair of hilarious, homespun, illustrated chapter books, issued in an easy to read paperback format for the very first time! What better way to find out how it all began than by starting at the beginning as McBroom, his wife, and their 11 redheaded children pack up their homestead and head West!

McBroom and the Big Wind

Josh McBroom relates how he and his family harness the rambunctious prairie wind.

McBroom’s Ghost

‘There’s been so much tomfool nonsense told about McBroom’s wonderful one acre farm.’ It’s a good thing Farmer Josh McBroom is back, setting matters straight in this pair of hilarious, homespun, illustrated chapter books, issued in an easy to read paperback format for the very first time! Ghosts? Mercy, yes! Josh McBroom can tell you a thing or three about ghosts including how an honest to goodness haunt came lurking about his one acre farm one uncommonly cold winter.

McBroom’s Wonderful One-acre Farm

When Josh McBroom learns that the eighty acres of Iowa farmland he’s purchased are all stacked up on top of each other at the bottom of a muddy little pond, he thinks he’s been bamboozled. But McBroom knows he’s got the better of the bargain when the pond dries up to reveal an acre of soil so rich that seeds spring up into full grown plants in no time and even nickels grow into quarters.

McBroom the Rainmaker

When a great drought on the prairie causes cows to give powdered milk and mosquitoes to grow almost as large as small cowsheds, McBroom comes up with a novel idea for producing rain.

McBroom Tells a Lie

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A farmer and his family save their amazing one acre farm by using a Popcornmobile, frozen sunlight and lightning bugs.

Here Comes McBroom

The corn grows so fast on Josh McBroom’s farm that the red barns turn blue with the cold and words freeze in the air, in the hilarious adventures and wistful illustrations in the companion anthology to McBroom’s Wonderful One Acre Farm.

By the Great Hornspoon!

In this moving tale of love and adventure, Jack’s aunt is forced to sell her beloved mansion to meet her debts. She is still unable to raise enough money to pay her creditors, and Jack goes to California in search of gold in order to help her. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

The Ghost in the Noonday Sun

So begin the adventures of young Oliver Finch, born at the stroke of midnight. Believing that Oliver can spy out ghosts, Captain Scratch kidnaps him, bringing him aboard the notorious pirate vessel Bloody Hand. The ship sails the high seas in pursuit of the ghost of Gentleman Jack, who paces his grave where the pirate treasure lies buried. A despicable pirate captain, a mutinous crew, a band of sly sea ghosts Oliver is determined to outfox them all and get safely home. It’s a tale of treachery, intrigue, and suspense!

Jingo Django

Jingo Hawks, an orphan chimney sweep, joins forces with Mr. Peacock, a con artist on a treasure hunt for buried gold, with the nasty General Dirty Face Scurlock and Mrs. Daggatt in hot pursuit. By the author of The Whipping Boy. PW. H. AB.

Humbug Mountain

A young boy and his wandering family foil villains and rout nasty varmints as they make a home for themselves in a beached boat on the banks of the Missouri.

The Whipping Boy

A shout comes echoing up the stairway ‘Fetch The Whipping Boy!’ A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. ‘Ain’t I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What’s the prince done now? It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and spiteful Prince Brat. Dreaming of running away, Jemmy finds himself trapped in Prince Brat’s own dream at once brash and perilous. In this briskly told tale of high adventure, taut with suspense and rich with colorful characters, The Whipping Boy and Prince Brat must at last confront each other. Award winning author Sid Fleischman again blends the broadly comic with the deeply compassionate in this memorable novel.A shout comes echoing up the stairway. ‘Fetch The Whipping Boy!’A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. ‘Ain’t I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What’s the prince done now?’It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and spiteful Prince Brat. Dreaming of running away, Jemmy finds himself trapped in Prince Brat’s own dream at once brash and perilous. In this briskly told tale of high adventure, taut with suspense and rich with colorful characters, The Whipping Boy and Prince Brat must at last confront each other. Award winning author Sid Fleischman agains blends the broadly comic with the deeply compassionate in this memorable novel.

Jim Ugly

A one-man dog

Part wolf and fiercely independent, Jim Ugly is a dog who answers to only one person. Unfortunately, that man — Sam Bannock — has disappeared. Rumor has it that Sam is dead, but to his son, Jake, something about that doesn’t sound quite right. So Jake and Jim Ugly embark on a wild journey into the frontier West, where they find themselves pursued by a pretty lady, a theater troupe, and one very ornery yellow-legged man. And they all want to know one thing: Where is Sam Bannock?

The 13th Floor

There’s a mile long word for the fear and magic of the number thirteen triskaidekaphobia. In this comic fireworks of a novel, newly orphaned Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto The 13th Floor of a shabby old building and finds himself transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm 300 years in the past! Cast adrift, he washes up in New England where his plucky ancestor, ten year old Abigail, is caught up in the witchcraft mania and is about to be hanged. Firing off surprises like Roman candles from almost every page, award winning novelist Sid Fleischman tells a many mirrored tale of ghosts, witchcraft, razzle dazzle treasure, and the mischief of illusion and delusion. There’s a mile long word for the fear and magic or the number thirteen triskaidekaphobia. In this comic fireworks of a novel, newly orphaned Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto The 13th Floor of a shabby old building and finds himself transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm 300 years in the past! Cast adrift, he washes up in New England where his plucky ancestor, ten year old Abigail, is caught up in the witchcraft mania and is about to be hanged. Firing off surprises like Roman candles from almost every page, award winning novelist Sid Fleischman tells a many mirrored tale of ghosts, witchcraft, razzle dazzle treasure, and the mischief of illusion and delusion.

Bandit’s Moon

Newly orphaned, young Annyrose escapes from the villainous O.O. Mary and falls under the protection of a proud and fearless Mexican bandit, regarded as the Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush. Annyrose wants only to search for her older brother who had run off to the gold diggings, but she finds herself galloping beside the celebrated outlaw in his own quest. He is hunting down the last of a band of ‘Yankee’ riffraff who wronged him, an event that turned the innocent young Mexican into an avenging terror of the roads. With his characteristic story twists and turns and surprises, Newbery Award winner Sid Fleischman lights up a dark corner in this Gold Rush drama set against a firestorm of bigotry ignited by the lust for riches. As for this legendary bandit, dashing about on his silken black horse and breathing fire, he actually lived. 02 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader’s Book Award Nominee Master List, 00 01 Charlie May Simon Book Award Reading List, 02 Nutmeg State Children’s Book Award Masterlist, 00 01 Children’s Choice Award Masterlist, 00 01 William Allen White Children’s Book Award Masterlist, 01 02 Land of Enchantment Book Award Masterlist Gr. 6 9, and 00 01 Sequoyah Children’s Book Award Masterlist

Bo & Mzzz Mad

The Gamages and the Martinkas despise each other, because of a family feud handed down from generation to generation. Nevertheless, to escape a foster home, newly orphaned Bo Gamage steps off the bus in the California desert to meet his distant cousin Madeleine, a genuine on the hoof Martinka. About his own age, Madeleine wears big sunglas*ses and calls herself Mzzz Mad. The name sounds to Bo like a mosquito in the air, about to attack. ‘You one of them ornery Gamages?’ she asks. ‘Where’s your horns and your mangy tail?’Enemies at first sight, they find themselves under the same roof in a ghost town presided over by cantankerous Charlie Martinka, a former cowboy movie star turned prospector. Bo is quickly caught up in a razzle dazzle of goings on, which include a wild battle for a missing map, the mystery of the tattooed head, and a daring search for the legendary Pegleg Smith gold mine. And before they know it, Bo and Mzzz Mad find themselves handcuffed together!

Disappearing Act

An unseen man they call the Toad is stalking twelve year old Kevin and his older sister, Holly. They flee town in Holly’s beat up old car, driving west until they reach the Pacific Ocean. They change their names and attempt to hide in plain sight as street performers in Venice, California. But have they really eluded the Toad? From the opening sentence, this page turner of a novel is alive with surprise twists and suspense. Imagine a buried city made entirely of gold! Watch big Bumpy Rhoades juggle twenty pound watermelons on the boardwalk. Meet Daisy, an aspiring artist with braces on her teeth who helps Kevin become a beachside fortune teller. And notice the man in the white suit? Is he the Toad? Here is Newbery Medalist and former professional magician Sid Fleischman doing what he does best spinning a tale with style, comic touches, and a double barreled theme lurking behind the laughter.

The Giant Rat of Sumatra

A swashbuckling pirate ship cuts through the early morning fog. Crouching like a tiger about to spring, her figurehead is a huge and ferocious rat with crooked teeth and gouged-out eyes.

When the daring Giant Rat of Sumatra drops anchor in San Diego, twelve-year-old cabin boy Shipwreck only wants to begin his long journey home to Boston. Instead he encounters:

snarling mutineers
barefoot bandits
hairbreadth escapes
duels
cunning barkeeps
simmering revenge
secret identities
scrappy orphans
betrayals
lost loves
old enemies
new villains
heroic last stands

and razzle-dazzle treasure so well hidden that only someone as quick and clever as Shipwreck could keep up with it.

Plucked from the sea by the most notorious pirate in the Pacific, Shipwreck discovers his adventure is only beginning.

The White Elephant

How can a beautiful white elephant be a terrible curse?

Run-Run, a young elephant trainer, discovers the answer when he incurs the fury of the prince. The boy’s punishment? The gift of an elephant, white as a cloud. From that moment forward, the curse reveals itself. According to tradition, so rare an elephant cannot be allowed to work for its keep. It is poor Run-Run who must feed the beast the hundreds of pounds of food it eats each day, and scrub it clean, and brush its pom-pom of a tail, and wash behind its ears, and, above all, keep it from doing any work.

Oh, if only Run-Run could make the magnificent white elephant disappear! Clever as a magician, he does-but the curse has tricks of its own for Run-Run.

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk

One night The Great Freddie, a young ventriloquist, is possessed by a dybbuk. A what? A Jewish spirit. A scrappy demon who glows as if spray painted by moonlight. The dybbuk is revealed to be the ghost of a twelve year old boy named Avrom Amos, a victim of the Na*zis during World War II. In a plucky scheme to seek revenge, he commandeers The Great Freddie’s stage act and entraps the entertainer in the postwar ashes of Germany. Behind the footlights, the dybbuk lights up the terrible fate of a million and a half Jewish children, including Avrom himself. What tricks does the dybbuk have up his ghostly sleeve? Prepare to be astonished…
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The Dream Stealer

There is a bandit who comes in the night. He does not want pretty silver earrings or dangly gold necklaces, not diamonds or rubies. What does he want? Listen, I will tell you. He wants dreams. He is supposed to take only nightmares the dreams of monsters and phantoms but he’s grown scared. He’s been taking the good dreams instead. But one night he steals from the wrong girl. Susana is clever. She is wily. She is brave. And she wants her dream back.

Look Behind You, Lady / The Venetian Blonde

Look Behind You, Lady: What a pickup line! Bruce Flemish is getting ready for his magic act at the Hotel China Seas in Macao when the girl sits down next to him at the bar and offers her room number. But this casual meeting is anything but. Donna Van Deerlin is looking for a hero. Her father was killed trying to get information to Hong Kong about a local opium ring. Donna has her father’s notes in code. But getting them out of Macao will take courage. Bruce is sure she must have the wrong guy he’s just an itinerant magician. But before long Donna is working her magic on him, and Bruce is trying to stay one step ahead of a gang of murderers who want to get their hands on the notes as well. The Venetian Blonde: Skelly stumbles into Venice with a gangster on his tail and his card dealing confidence blown to hell. He feels washed up. That’s when he runs into Viola, a young blonde in a black swimsuit sitting at the end of the bar. He can’t shake her. And he needs to, because Skelly is in town to hit up his old friend Rinny Jim for some quick cash. Instead he finds Rinny’s beautiful wife Maggie, and a very sweet deal a million dollar con to bring a rich dame’s nephew back from the dead. Now he’s got two women after him, and all that sweet green tempting him to one last score. Skelly’s problems have only begun.

Jim Bridger’s Alarm Clock

Three tall tales about Jim Bridger and several of his unbelievable discoveries in the wilderness of the West.

The Scarebird

Lonesome John lives on a farm in the country, so deep in the country that the ‘crows pack a lunch before setting out.’ When he places a scarecrow in one of his fields, he quickly grows attached to the figure. It is his only company. Then, a homeless, young farmhand happens along and asks for a job. Soon, the farmer has something much more precious than any scarecrow: He has a friend.

A Carnival of Animals

A no account little tornado comes twirling along. It means no great harm, but for the animals in the shadow of Barefoot Mountain life will never be the same. A 400pound hog finds a wind tossed harmonica and learns to play it. Emperor Floyd, a wild rooster, is frightened into insomnia and keeps everyone awake by crowing in the middle of the night. Stumblefrog discovers a sack of Mexican jumping beans left in the path of the twister, and guess what happens?Most curious of all, the storm drops a ‘strange little animal, all pink skin and bones, lying in a heap against a hollow log.’ Its fur or feathers have been plucked clean by the tornado, and no one can guess what nature of odd animal the ‘Windblown Child’ is. Everyone is in for a huge and wondrous surprise. In these six broad comedies, Newbery Medal winner Sid Fleischman again proves himself to be a wizard of the American tall tale. Children’s Books 2000 NY Public Lib.

The Ghost on Saturday Night

A madcap tale of fog and phantomsOpie and Aunt Etta think there’s something funny going on when Professor Pepper announces that he’s going to raise the ghost of a dead outlaw live on stage. Can Opie cut through all t he fog to get to the bottom of the professor’s plans?See the Ghost of Crookneck John! That’s what Professor Pepper’s sign promises, and Opie can hardly wait to see such a sight. But the unseen specter escapes from his coffin during the show, and if that weren’t bad enough, the town bank is robbed too! Is Crookneck John a bandit from beyond the grave or is more than the fog being pulled over the townsfolk’s’ eyes? A reissue of one of Sid Fleischman’s early novels.

The Midnight Horse

It is raining bullfrogs. Inside the coach to Cricklewood sit a blacksmith, a thief, and an orphan boy named Touch. ‘The haunt, lad!’ shouts the blacksmith suddenly. ‘If you want to see a live ghost, stick your head out the window. He’s on the roof.’ That is Touch’s first glimpse of the roguish ghost of The Great Chaffalo, a magician once celebrated for his trick of turning straw into horses. They meet again when Touch, fleeing from his wicked great uncle, gathers an armload of straw and seeks out the phantom. The Great Chaffalo obliges the runaway boy with a high legged stallion with a golden mane and ‘a hide as fine as China silk.’ But Touch discovers that not even this bedazzling horse can put him beyond reach of the troubles pursuing him. He is forced to confront rascals and wrongdoers with imagination and courage and a ghostly word now and then from his new friend, The Great Chaffalo. With his gift for comedy and robust storytelling, Sid Fleischman tells a tale of innocence in a world of high villainy and low, of things seen and not what they seem, of mystery, suspense, and wonder.

Abracadabra Kid

The man with the spats rolled up his sleeves and proceeded to pluck a polished red billiard ball out of thin air. Presto! It vanished. Abracadabra! It reappeared. It turned white. it blushed red again. VoiI ! Suddenly there were four billiard balls between this amazing man’s fingers.I was stunned. All of this was happening right under my nose. And there was more. He flipped the deck into falling waterfalls of cards, spun them into fans, and thrust a sword through a shower of cards to impale the seven of diamonds selected a moment before.I was dazzled. The moment he finished his act and ushered us gawkers back onto the sidewalk, I knew what I wanted to be. Someone else could be president of the United States.I wanted to be a magician.

Escape!

Who was this man who could walk through brick walls and, with a snap of his fingers, vanish elephants? In these pages you will meet the astonishing Houdini magician, ghost chaser, daredevil, pioneer aviator, and king of escape artists. No jail cell or straitjacket could hold him! He shucked off handcuffs as easily as gloves.

In this fresh, witty biography of the most famous bamboozler since Merlin, Sid Fleischman, a former professional magician, enriches his warm homage with insider information and unmaskings. Did Houdini really pick the jailhouse lock to let a fellow circus performer escape? Were his secrets really buried with him? Was he a bum magician, as some rivals claimed? How did he manage to be born in two cities, in two countries, on two continents at the same instant?

Here are the stories of how a knockabout kid named Ehrich Weiss, the son of an impoverished rabbi, presto changoed himself into the legendary Harry Houdini. Here, too, are rare photographs never before seen by the general reader!

Sir Charlie

See him? That little tramp twitching a postage stamp of a mustache, politely lifting his bowler hat, and leaning on a bamboo cane with the confidence of a gentleman? A slapstick comedian, he blazed forth as the brightest movie star in the Hollywood heavens.

Everyone knew Charlie-Charlie Chaplin.

When he was five years old he was pulled onstage for the first time, and he didn’t step off again for almost three-quarters of a century. Escaping the London slums of his tragic childhood, he took Hollywood like a conquistador with a Co*ckney accent. With his gift for pantomime in films that had not yet acquired vocal cords, he was soon rubbing elbows with royalty and dining on gold plates in his own Beverly Hills mansion. He was the most famous man on earth-and he was regarded as the funniest.

Still is…
. He comes to life in these pages. It’s an astonishing rags-to-riches saga of an irrepressible kid whose childhood was dealt from the bottom of the deck. Abundantly illustrated.

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