By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman; 1963; 193 pages; Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA; 0-316-28577-3; 5/19/09-5/19/09
This was made into a movie in 1967, with Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden and Mike Mazurki.  I read the movie adaption back before I was 12 or 13 and have always remembered the book fondly.  [...]