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The abracadabra kid : a writer's life
Title:
The abracadabra kid : a writer's life
JLCTITLE245:
Sid Fleischman.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Greenwillow Books, c1996.
Physical Description:
198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780688148591
Abstract:
The autobiography of the Newbery Award-winning children's author who set out from childhood to be a magician.
Reading Level:
940 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 6.2 7 Quiz 73397 English non-fiction.
Contents:
Fateful nickel -- Fledgling mystic -- Man of air -- Sonny boy -- Modern times -- On my way, but where? -- My life with the treble clef, sort of -- Pals -- Mirthful conjurers -- McBroom -- See'n is believ'n -- Truckee -- Gold fever -- Transformations -- Expert at the card table -- Footlights -- Spook show -- Little shop of hocus pocus -- Thickening the plot -- Enter, the girl from Long Beach -- Repertory company of warriors -- Shakedown cruise -- Destination unknown -- Life among the floating mines -- Gone fishing -- Shanghai -- House with a view -- Straw donkey -- Good-bye, state -- City room days -- 27-inch man -- Europe -- Blood alley-- Living under an avocado tree -- Mr. Mysterious & company -- Anatomy of a novel -- On the road -- Villains I have loved -- Enter, laughing -- Footsteps -- Hello, Mr. Newbery -- Curtain lines -- Ghost story -- Books by Sid Fleischman.
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