McBroom's Zoo Author:Sid Fleischman Almost everyone knows about Josh McBroom's wonderful one-acre farm where the soil is so rich that "it ought to be kept in the bank". If you leave a trowel stuck in the ground overnight it will grow into a shovel by morning, and a bean crop can be sown and harvested in an hour. — This fifth hilarious tale about McBroom begins with disaster--A torn... more »ado sucks up every bit of that miraculous topsoil, leaving just a one-acre hole in the ground where the farm had been!
The McBroom family doesn't give up easily, however. Josh and his dear wife Melissa and the children Will,Jill,Hester,Chester,Peter,Polly,Tim,Tom,Mary,Larry, and little Clarinda pile into the Franklin and set out after that cyclone to see where it drops their marvelous topsoil. The McBrooms hardly get started on their chase when they meet up with some mighty peculiar creatures that the twister has dropped on the prairie.
Enough to start a zoo with.
To find out how the McBrooms and their creatures foil a hunter, and whether they get their farm back, and if they ever do SEE the Great Seventeen-toed Hairy Prairie Hidebehind, you must read the book. Like all the other McBroom adventures, it's true of course--every word!« less