A tall tale for children who like a small scare.

McBroom is back, trying to solve the mystery of strange noises around his farm when he deals with the powerful cold of the Iowa prairie (so cold a flame would freeze and you had to thaw it out before you could blow it out). This is a tall tale, not as good as McBroom's One Acre Farm, but funny nonetheless. Fleischman wrote a number of McBroom stories that are back in print, and worth getting if your curriculum is too heavy on historical fiction and not enough on good, fun stories.

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