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.
A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists Harry Houdini, whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926.
Because Captain Scratch thinks Oliver Finch can see ghosts, he shanghais the boy abroad a pirate ship bound from Nantucket in search of buried treasure. Devious methods enable Oliver to outwit Scratch.
A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World Warr II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Author's note details the murder. of over one millionchildren by the Nazis during the 1930's and 1940s.