Fleischman, Sid

A lonely old farmer realizes the value of human friendship when a young man comes to help him and his scarecrow with their farm.

After leaving their rocky Connecticut farm to seek their fortunes in the West, Josh McBroom, his wife Melissa, and their eleven redheaded children stop in Iowa where they become the owners of a small but very unusual piece of property.

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

An orphan boy resolves to follow a treasure map he finds inscribed on a whale's tooth.

The adventures of a family of magicians traveling across the western deserts and plains in the 1880s.

Chancy sets out to find his kin and meets the Grand Rascal, who joins him in adventures that take them down the Ohio River and across the Midwest.

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 cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the U.S. and Mexico.

When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.

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.