The Entertainer and the Dybbuk

Informationen zum Autor Sid Fleischman 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 wasted youth as a magician and newspaperman in his autobiography The Abracadabra Kid . His other titles include The Entertainer and the Dybbuk , a novel, and three biographies, Sir Charlie: Chaplin, The Funniest Man in the World ; The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West ; and Escape! The Story of The Great Houdini . Zusammenfassung One night The Great Freddie, a young ventriloquist, is possessed by a dybbuk. A what? A Jewish spirit. A scrappy demon who glows as if spray-painted by moonlight. The dybbuk is revealed to be the ghost of a twelve-year-old boy named Avrom Amos, a victim of the Nazis during World War II. In a plucky scheme to seek revenge, he commandeers The Great Freddie's stage act and entraps the entertainer in the postwar ashes of Germany. Behind the footlights, the dybbuk lights up the terrible fate of a million and a half Jewish children, including Avrom himself. What tricks does the dybbuk have up his ghostly sleeve? Prepare to be astonished. . . .

Product details

• Authors: Sid Fleischman
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2007
• EAN: 9780061344459
• ISBN: 978-0-06-134445-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 184 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION: Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION: Mysteries & Detective Stories, JUVENILE FICTION: Horror, JUVENILE FICTION: Girls & Women, JUVENILE FICTION: Ghost Stories *, JUVENILE FICTION: Paranormal, JUVENILE FICTION: Historical / Military & Wars, JUVENILE FICTION: Religious / Jewish, JUVENILE FICTION: War & Military, JUVENILE FICTION: Historical / Holocaust, JUVENILE FICTION: Historical / Middle East, JUVENILE FICTION: Fantasy / General