A 1979 National Book Award FinalistWinner of the 1979 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
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.
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Language
English
Release Day
Jun 30, 2012
Release Date
July 1, 2012
Release Date Machine
1341100800
Imprint
Blackstone Publishing
Provider
Blackstone Publishing
Categories
Children's Books, Action & Adventure, Geography & Cultures, Humor, Children/YA, Children 8-12, Fiction - All, Fiction - Child
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.
Dan John Miller is an American actor and musician. In the Oscar-winning Walk the Line, he starred as Johnny Cash’s guitarist and best friend, Luther Perkins, and has also appeared in George Clooney’s Leatherheads and My One and Only, with Renée Zellweger. An award-winning audiobook narrator, he has garnered multiple Audie Award nominations, has twice been named a Best Voice by AudioFile magazine, and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up Award from Publishers Weekly.
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A 1979 National Book Award FinalistWinner of the 1979 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
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.