Moving in with her loving Aunt Hilda after escaping the Child-Catching Services and her villainous uncle, Emily Wiggins and her orphaned friend, Jackson, struggle to outmaneuver a child snatcher intent on earning a reward for nabbing Jackson while also evading a mysterious, dusty creature who approaches the house while Emily and Jackson are alone. By the Newbery Award-winning author of Shiloh. Things start looking up for Emily and Jackson when Emilys inheritance clears and Aunt Hilda becomes her legal guardian and offers to become Jacksons, as well, but Uncle Victor reappears, willing to do anything to steal Emilys fortune. Due to demand for a companion story to the popular Emilys Fortune, Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written another rootin tootin Wild West escapade that once again includes plucky orphans Emily and Jackson, dastardly villains, and comical cliffhangers.Emily Wiggins is thrilled that she and her orphan friend Jackson have escaped the clutches of the Child-Catching Services and Emilys villainous uncle Victor. Emily and Jackson are now living happily with her loving aunt Hilda. But just a mighty mouth minute! Someones snooping around for an orphan child on the run! He knows Jackson is hiding nearby and aims to get a reward for snatching him and sending him to work at a mill. What in leapin livers should Jackson do? And Emily cant rest easy either, since some sort of creature is coming to their gate when Jackson and Emily are home alone. What in simmering succotash is that moving pile of dirt? Is it a heap of black rags, is it a dusty tumbleweed, no its . . . Now what in shaking shivers will happen next?
