Product Description: This fun novel for teens and tweens is full of adventure, emotion, and imagination. Zort W. Calabash is the patriarch of a clan of Wall People, five-inch-tall humans who live behind the walls in the older apartment buildings on Park Avenue in Manhattan...read more

Product Description: "Wanted--Young skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily... Orphans preferred."--Pony Express poster, 1860America in the mid-1800s was a land of burgeoning cities, westward expansion, economic optimism, and political turmoil...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)