Sid Fleischman

Humbug Mountain (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Welcome to Humbug Mountain. Little did Wiley, the son of a traveling newspaperman, imagine that the search for his grandfather would lead him into the hands of those nasty villains of the West-Shagnasty John and the Fool Killer. Using their newspaper, The Humbug Mountain Hoorah, Wiley and his sister and mother go about outwitting the outlaws in their scheme to ambush Grandfather's new boat and its cargo of gold.

Sid Fleischman (1920-2010) wrote more than sixty books for children, adults, and magicians. Among his many awards was the Newbery Medal for his novel The Whipping Boy. The author described his youth as a magician and newspaperman in his autobiography The Abracadabra Kid.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781620643884
• Artikelnr.: 37975275

Autorenporträt

Sid Fleischman wrote more than sixty books for children and adults. He was awarded the 1987 Newbery Medal for The Whipping Boy and also received the California Young Readers Medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and was the U.S. nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award. His lifelong fascination with history, magic, movies, and the American west filled both his fiction and the biographies he wrote of Harry Houdini, Mark Twain, and Charlie Chaplin. He told his own tale in The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life.