Best Selling Books by Sid Fleischman

In 1849 Jack Flagg and his Aunt Arabella's butler, Praiseworthy, stowaway on a side-wheeler sailing from Boston to San Francisco, hoping to strike it rich in the gold fields of California. In the adventures that ensue, Praiseworthy proves himself even more able as a traveling companion than he had previously shown himself as a butler.

A farmer and his family save their farm by using a popcorn machine, frozen sunlight and jumping beans.

Donated new 1991grades 1-2.

Skinny Chancy and his newly found uncle, Will Buckthorn, known as the Grand Rascal, enjoy humorous escapades as they travel by their wits up and across the Midwest in search of Chancy's family.

The protagonist of Look behind You Lady is a magician, performing on the stage of a club in exotic Macao. The hero of The Venetian Blonde is another kind of conjurer, a cardsharp who becomes involved with a spiritualism con in the seedy precincts of Venice, California.

A thief steals a farmer's gold but is outwitted by a mischievous wood spirit - the Hey Hey Man.

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. A shout comes echoing up the stairway "Fetch the whipping boy!" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done now? It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and spiteful Prince Brat. Dreaming of running away, Jemmy finds himself trapped in Prince Brat's own dream--at once brash and perilous. In this briskly told tale of high adventure, taut with suspense and rich with colorful characters, the whipping boy and Prince Brat must at last confront each other.

Three tall tales about Jim Bridger and several of his unbelievable discoveries in the wilderness of the West.