Fleischman, Sid

Buddy and Liz receive a phone call from an ancestor who has been dead for over three hundred years. They find themselves on the 13th floor of an old building and are transported back in time to save their ancestor from being burned at the stake for being a witch.

When Professor Pepper gives Opie tickets to a ghost-raising instead of a nickel in payment for being guided through the dense fog, Opie manages to make money anyways by helping to thwart a bank robbery.

After their archaeologist mother fails to return from Mexico and they discover that someone is stalking their Albuquerque house, twelve-year-old Kevin and his opera-singing older sister flee to Venice, California, where they hope that new identities will keep them safe.

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

Touch enlists the help of The Great Chaffalo, a ghostly magician, to thwart his great-uncle's plans to put Touch into the orphan house and swindle The Red Raven Inn away from Miss Sally.

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.

Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaqun Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s.