by Sid Fleischman · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420441252
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«El fantasma del sol de mediodía» is the children's and young adult adventure novel by Sid Fleischman, published by Alfaguara in paperback (200 pages).
Oliver, a twelve-year-old boy, is captured by Captain Scratch while bringing food to the «Sweet Molly». The ship becomes the pirate vessel «Bloody Head» and the captain, who believes Oliver can communicate with spirits because he was born at midnight, uses him to find the treasure of Gentleman Jack's ghost.
Work originally published in 1965 under the title «The Ghost in the Noonday Sun». It is part of the Alfaguara Juvenil collection, number 232.
Aimed at children and young readers aged 9 to 12, especially those who enjoy stories of pirates, ghosts and treasure.
Albert Sidney Fleischman was an American author of children's books, screenplays, novels for adults, and nonfiction books about stage magic. His works for children are known for their humor, imagery, zesty plotting, and exploration of the byways of American history. He won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for The Whipping Boy and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1979 for Humbug Mountain. For his career contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1994. In 2003, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators inaugurated the Sid Fleischman Humor Award in his honor, and made him the first recipient. The Award annually recognizes a writer of humorous fiction for children or young adults. He told his own tale in The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (1996).
