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Orphan Jingo Hawks is out of luck when Mrs. Daggatt hires him out as a chimney sweep to the awful General Dirty-Face Scurlock. But it's gypsy luck that day in 1854 puts Jingo into the right chimney and then into the care of the mysterious Mr. Peacock-Hancock-Jones, who claims to know Jingo's scoundrel father. Together they set out on a treasure hunt from Boston to Mexico for buried gold. But they are not alone -- those nasty gold diggers Mrs. Daggatt and General Scurlock are hot on their trail. But Mr. Peacock-Hancock-Jones has more than a few surprises in store . . .
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About the author
Sid Fleischman wrote more than sixty books for children and adults. He was awarded the 1987 Newbery Medal for The Whipping Boy and also received the California Young Readers Medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and was the U.S. nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award. His lifelong fascination with history, magic, movies, and the American west filled both his fiction and the biographies he wrote of Harry Houdini, Mark Twain, and Charlie Chaplin. He told his own tale in The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life.
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