Fleischman, Sid

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The entertainer and the dybbuk

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.

Whipping Boy

Longbeard the wizard

A bored young king disguises himself as a wizard and mingles among his people until word of his magic spreads.

The ghost in the noonday sun

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.

Here comes McBroom

A collection of three previously published stories about the farmer who'd rather sit on a porcupine than tell a lie. Includes "McBroom the Rainmaker," "McBroom's Zoo," and "McBroom's Ghost.".

Escape!

the story of the great Houdini
2006
A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926.

The white elephant

2006
In old Siam, young elephant trainer Run-Run and his old charge, Walking Mountain, must deal with the curse of a sacred white elephant.

The abracadabra kid

a writer's life
1996
The autobiography of the Newbery award-winning children's author who set out from childhood to be a magician.

Bandit's moon

1998
Twelve-year-old Annyrose, left behind when her brother joins the Gold Rush, escapes the unscrupulous woman with whom she is staying and sets out on a grand adventure with the notorious bandit Joaquin Murieta and his band of outlaws.

Jim Ugly

2003
Twelve-year-old Jake sets off on an adventure through the Old West, accompanied by Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, in an attempt to find out what really happened to his missing father, Sam.

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