In the further adventures of Josh McBroom, the crops grow so fast, you'd better step out of the way when you plant corn, red barns turn blue in the cold, and words freeze still in mid-air. "As fresh as ever."--Booklist.

Presents three humorous adventures on McBroom's wonderful one-acre prairie farm

"It; s true, I did tell a lie once, " says McBroom. But it's not about the cold snap that froze sunlight to the ground. Or even about the time the McBroom chickens ate lightning bugs and glowed so bright, they used them as lanterns. Whatever it is, it's bound to be laugh-out-loud funny, as his name is Josh McBroom. Illustrations. Age 7-10.

The war is on when the grasshoppers attack Josh McBroom's fabulous one-acre farm and prize ear of corn.

A madcap tale of fog and phantoms Opie and Aunt Etta think there's something funny going on when Professor Pepper announces that he's going to raise the ghost of a dead outlaw--live on stage. Can Opie cut through all t he fog to get to the bottom of the professor's plans? See the Ghost of Crookneck John! That's what Professor Pepper's sign promises, and Opie can hardly wait to see such a sight. But the unseen specter escapes from his coffin during the show, and if that weren't bad enough, the town bank is robbed too! Is Crookneck John a bandit from beyond the grave--or is more than the fog being pulled over the townsfolk's' eyes? A reissue of one of Sid Fleischman's early novels.

The McBrooms start a zoo with the Sidehill Gouger, Desert Vamooser, Silver-tailed Teakettler, and other rare animals left behind by a passing tornado.

When the Big Drought on the prairie causes cows to give powdered milk and mosquitoes to grow almost as large as small cowsheds, McBroom comes up with a novel idea for producing rain. Illustrations.

The adventures of a family of magicians traveling across the western deserts and plains in the 1880s. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Josh McBroom relates how he and his family harness the rambunctious prairie wind.