Fateful nickel -- Fledgling mystic -- Man of air -- Sonny boy -- Modern times -- On my way, but where? -- My life with the treble clef, sort of -- Pals -- Mirthful conjurers -- McBroom -- See'n is believ'n -- Truckee -- Gold fever -- Transformations -- Expert at the card table -- Footlights -- Spook show -- Little shop of hocus pocus -- Thickening the plot -- Enter, the girl from Long Beach -- Repertory company of warriors -- Shakedown cruise -- Destination unknown -- Life among the floating mines -- Gone fishing -- Shanghai -- House with a view -- Straw donkey -- Good-bye, state -- City room days -- 27-inch man -- Europe -- Blood alley-- Living under an avocado tree -- Mr. Mysterious & company -- Anatomy of a novel -- On the road -- Villains I have loved -- Enter, laughing -- Footsteps -- Hello, Mr. Newbery -- Curtain lines -- Ghost story -- Books by Sid Fleischman.

The autobiography of the Newbery award-winning children's author who set out from childhood to be a magician.