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Original Title: The Great Brain
ISBN: 0142400580 (ISBN13: 9780142400586)
Edition Language: English
Series: The Great Brain #1
Characters: Tom Fitzgerald, John Fitzgerald, Sweyn Fitzgerald
Setting: Utah(United States)
Literary Awards: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1969)

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The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving the kids at school, or helping out Peg-leg Andy, or Basil, the new kid at school, the Great Brain always manages to come out on top—and line his pockets in the process.

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Title:The Great Brain (The Great Brain #1)
Author:John D. Fitzgerald
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 192 pages
Published:February 9th 2004 by Puffin Books (first published 1967)
Categories:Childrens. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Humor. Classics. Middle Grade

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Ratings: 4.17 From 16140 Users | 937 Reviews

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This is another one I remember from the past. I remember liking it as a kid. Read again just for nostalgia's sake. Not sure it holds up. Tom, the "Great Brain" was really just a little shyster, figuring out ways to turn a profit on everything he did - even those things he did as good deeds.

2017: I think I will always love this book no matter how many times I read it. Full review here: http://www.sunlitpages.com/2017/05/th...2009: I'm still chuckling over some of T.D.'s antics. The two stories I really remembered from my first reading were the mumps and the near-suicide, and I can see why they stuck with me so vividly...after reading it again, they're still the best ones.

What The Five-Year-Old Thought: "I can't explain why I liked it except that JD is telling the story. Tom is the one with the Great Brain and he rescued a few guys."What Mommyo thought: My husband is in the process of reading this to our 5YO. Both are really enjoying it (true confessions -- my husband read this as a child, so his enjoyment may be partly nostalgia). When they got to the bit about making homemade ice cream, The 5YO said: Daddyo, I want to jump into the book right that second.You

I LOVED this book! I read this one to my children and we laughed through most of it and then I cried through the rest. One aspect that I really loved was how real it felt, like I was growing up right along side J.D. and Tom. I also loved the perspective of what it was like to grow up in a small Utah town and not be a Mormon. Being a Mormon myself, I had never really thought what it would be like to view of us from outside the religion. I thought it was done very fairly and many things were

My modern day sensitivities got in the way again when, in the last chapter of this book I read out loud to my boys, I started reading about peg leg Andy who wanted to commit suicide because he was plumb useless. Our dear narrator, little J.D. was just the type of pal to help him out too. I continued to read about the different ideas the boys came up with to do in Andy, and tried to figure out what I could make up to pretend the story was over and get out of reading the last 10 or so pages of the

rtc but can I just say the JD-TD combo is the WORST brother pair you will ever read of. JD is the most thick-headed kid I've ever met and TD is the most annoying. But the stories are interesting and it did happen to the author - at least, some of it did. But it's still annoying that TD gets away with everything while JD gets away with nothing.

I bought this one for my nephews out of nostalgia the other day, remembering having liked it as a kid. And so I thought I ought to reread it myself. It's not often one reads fiction set in 19th century Utah, and this is an interesting perspective from the Fitzgeralds--Sweyn, Tom and John--three Catholic boys who grew up circa 1896 in Utah's Dixie, in the small fictionalized Mormon town of Adenville (the author in fact was born and raised in Carbon County).What I did not remember was the

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