The Ghost in the Noonday Sun
by Sid Fleischman
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Twelve-year-old Oliver tries to escape from pirates who take him to an island to find the ghost and treasure of Gentleman Jack.Tags
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I adore Sid Fleishman as a writer and as a human being. I was reading this book aloud to my son Willi. I got to the part where the captain was marooned, and Willi ran from the room crying. When I got him to calm down, he told me he didn't want the captain to die. I said he didn't die, he was marooned. He asked what that meant, and I told him. He thought that was worse! And he cried for a week. Every time he saw the book, he'd start crying all over again. We couldn't finish the story because of all his tears. In desperation, I wrote Mr. Fleishman and he wrote back! He said, "Tell Willi, the captain was rescued and he's juggling turtle eggs on Barbados!" Willi dried his tears, we finished the book, and Sid has been my favorite author ever show more since. (He would have been anyway.)
And since I'm here... I tried to add his book, "The Hey Hey Man." It's on Amazon books, but it won't come up on this site for some reason. Love it! The drawings are crude, but they grow on you. Read it ages ago and still will go around and say "Hey Hey!" show less
And since I'm here... I tried to add his book, "The Hey Hey Man." It's on Amazon books, but it won't come up on this site for some reason. Love it! The drawings are crude, but they grow on you. Read it ages ago and still will go around and say "Hey Hey!" show less
Sid Fleischman writes a good saga, but I also enjoy pirate stories.
This novel is about Oliver Finch who is shanghaied into the world of pirates. Captain Scratch, the pirate who kidnapped Oliver, believes Oliver has the ability to see ghosts and wants help defeating the ghosts who are guarding buried treasure. Good related reading for kids in grades 5-9.
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Sid Fleischman was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 16, 1920 but grew up in San Diego, California. He loved all things magical and toured professionally as a magician until the beginning of World War II. During the war, he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, and afterwards, he graduated from San Diego State University in 1949. After graduation, show more he worked as a reporter with the San Diego Daily Journal. After the paper folded in 1950, he started writing fiction. He tried his hand at children's books because his own children often wondered what their father did. To show them how he created stories, he wrote them a book. He wrote more than 50 fiction and nonfiction works during his lifetime including The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life; Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini; The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West; The Thirteenth Floor; and The Ghost in the Noonday Sun. His book, The Whipping Boy, won the Newberry Award in 1987. He is the father of Newbery Medal winning writer and poet Paul Fleischman; they are the only father and son to receive Newbery awards. He also wrote screenplays including Lafayette Escadrille, Blood Alley, and The Whipping Boy. He died from cancer on March 17, 2010 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Haamu keskipäivän auringossa
- Original title
- The Ghost in the Noonday Sun
- Original publication date
- 1965
- People/Characters
- Oliver Finch; Captain Scratch; Gentleman Jack
- Important places
- Barbados
- Related movies
- Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973 | IMDb)
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