The Not-Just-Anybody Family / Betsy Cromer Byars / 176 pages / Vintage Children's Challenge & First Book in a Series

This is the first book in the Blossom family series which includes Wanted Mud Blossom, a  Mark Twain Award Nominee.  In this story, Junior Blossom is determined to fly off the barn roof, having concocted wings from sheets and staples.  Unfortunately, just as he is about to jump, he sees a police car enter his yard and this vision seriously disrupts his timing.  His Pap is in the county jail for disturbing the peace and his mom is touring out West with the rodeo.  Junior breaks both his legs.  Maggie and Vern break into jail to tell Pap about Junior's mishap.  Mud, Pap's dog, makes a cameo appearance.