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McBroom and the Big Wind

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 2, 3, 4, 5
Page count: 9
Categories: Humor, Tall Tale

Author

Sid
Fleischman

Appeared in

McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm

Story Summary

McBroom remembers that day the Big Wind hit his farm, plucking the turkey, rolling timber wolves like tumbleweed and sucking his children, Will Jill Hester Chester Peter Polly Tim Tom Mary Larry and little Clarinda, up the chimney like a string of sausages.