Humbug Mountain, Sid Fleischman
Humbug Mountain, Sid Fleischman
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Humbug Mountain

Author: Sid Fleischman

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 3 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2013

Synopsis

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.

About Sid Fleischman

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.

About Dan John Miller

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luisa on June 17, 2019

This spoof on the Wild West is sure to keep your family entertained! The story embraces everything we love about stories in the Wild West Days ... only they have a little twist. The outlaws are dumb of course; so out-witting them is easy (and hilarious). And you can see how a little misprint can star......more

Goodreads review by Chris on December 05, 2023

I read this in an effort to determine if we should keep it on our shelf or not...other reviews I was reading were pretty mixed. I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed it, and it was a quick read with some fun and surprising twists in the end. It felt that we didn't really get to know the......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on January 09, 2023

Sid Fleischman is a solid storyteller. I also read THE WHIPPING BOY by him, which I very much enjoyed. HUMBUG MOUNTAIN, overall, kept me turning it pages due to good pacing achieved by the presence of enough suspense, conflict, and new developments. The book featured a cast of larger-than-life chara......more

Goodreads review by DarBesko on March 07, 2023

This book is truly an adventure full of surprises and suspense. Topics include the Civil War, covered wagons, riverboats, the power of printed words, land claims, gold rushes, blueprints, and steam engines.......more

Goodreads review by April on January 10, 2019

Such a great story in the tradition of spaghetti westerns and turn of the century adventure serial novels. Ended sooner than I would have liked.......more

Awards

  • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
  • National Book Award
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