The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story
by Sid Fleischman
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When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.Tags
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Buddy Stebbins lives with his older sister, a new lawyer. Their parents were killed in a planet crash, and now they only have each other. Buddy stumbles upon a mystery. First, his sister goes missing. Buddy’s tracking instincts leads him to a secret passage on the thirteenth floor of an old building, a floor that almost doesn’t exist. Passing through a light between floors, he finds himself on a pirate ship, 300 years in the past. Can he follow his sister’s trail? Surely he is on the right track, if only he doesn’t get thrown overboard for being a stowaway. This highly imaginative and clever tale is sure to enthrall and amuse young readers. Both boys and girls will find characters to like and admire. It is a well written tale show more with enough intrigue to be interesting but not scary. The detailed illustrations add much to the enjoyment to the story. show less
When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative. Cast adrift, he washes up in New England where his plucky ancestor, ten-year-old Abigail, is caught up in the witchcraft mania and about to be hanged
A fun story from one of my favorite children's authors.
Children's fiction; Adventure. Not really a "ghost story" per se--deals more with travelling back in time to when the kids' ancestors lived than with actual contact with the dead ancestors in the present. A disappointment.
Sehr spannend...
Um livro replecto de histórias de fantasmas, bruxas, e piratas.
Aug 31, 2008Portuguese
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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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