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1	Albert Sidney Fleischman (born Avron Zalmon Fleischman, March 16, 1920 – March 17, 2010) was an American writer.
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3	He is best known for his children's books, which include ''The Whipping Boy'' (1987 MediaNotes/NewberyMedal winner), ''[=McBroom=]'s Wonderful One-Acre Farm'', and ''The Ghost in the Noonday Sun''.
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5	!!His works with their own trope pages include:
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7	* ''Literature/TheEntertainerAndTheDybbuk''
8	* ''Literature/TheWhippingBoy''
9	* ''Literature/GhostInTheNoondaySun''
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11	!!His other works provide examples of:
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13	* FantasyAmericana: Several of Fleischman's books take place in frontier times.
14	* FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore: Appear in several of the [=McBroom=] books.
15	* GoldFever: The California gold rush of 1849 is the setting of ''By the Great Horn Spoon!''
16	* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: The chapter titles in ''The Ghost in the Noonday Sun''.
17	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Josh and Melissa [=McBroom=] have eleven kids -- Will, Jill, Hester, Chester, Peter, Polly, Tim, Tom, Mary, Larry, and Little Clarinda. Josh tends to [[LongList rattle their names off]] at least once a book.
18	* TheMunchausen: Possibly Josh [=McBroom=], and by extension, definitely Fleischman himself.
19	* PopcornOnTheCob: In one of the [=McBroom=] tall tales, the weather becomes so hot that corn starts popping right off the stalks in the fields.
20	* SimpleSolutionWontWork: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in Fleischman's memoir ''The Abracadabra Kid'' as a way of avoiding such [[PlotHole plot holes]]-- "If you see a hole in your story, point it out". When writing a story about the {{McBrooms}} dealing with the Hidebehind, a monster that nobody can describe because it hides behind something as soon as you turn your head, Fleischman wondered why someone couldn't just look in a mirror to see it. He had the father say that he ''did'' try carrying a mirror around, but "The Hidebehind was just too danged clever to fall for it."
21	* StageMagician: Mr. Mysterious in ''Mister Mysterious and Company'', Fleischman's first children's book. (Fleischman himself started his career doing stage magic acts in nightclubs.)
22	* WalletMoths: Used as a plot point in the first [=McBroom=] story; Josh [=McBroom=] buys a seemingly worthless farm for everything in his wallet, and when it turns out to be valuable land, the swindler who sold the land demands it back, saying that [=McBroom=] still owes him the moths that flew out when he handed over the money.
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