John D. Fitzgerald
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 4.17 | 16140 Users | 937 Reviews
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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.List Appertaining To Books The Great Brain (The Great Brain #1)
| 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 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books The Great Brain (The Great Brain #1)
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 theI 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
As a kid, I read this series and found them hilarious. Upon revisiting them, I find that there are still funny parts, but they also deal with serious topics in ways that I didn't remember. There are stories about death, suicide, and a child losing a leg to gangrene. The language about Native Americans is somewhat challenging at times. The stories remain engaging and I would suspect would still appeal to many children.
adding this because goodreads recommended I read it after Caraval... and how could I ever refuse a goodreads recommendation? how??
Listening to books in the car is the only way we go these days. This book was full of fabulous tales of "The Great Brain" and John, the little brother. My kids and I were totally enthralled with the story until the last chapter. John decides to be a good friend and help another boy commit suicide. That is not a topic we have talked about in jest in our home, so I was a little startled by it, although my 9-year-old saw the humor in it. The 6-year-old was frightened. Luckily the great brain thinks
Want to learn how to charge people to see a toilet flush? Need to learn to swim, or walk with a peg leg? Find your way out of a dangerous cave? Get rid of a strict teacher? Ask the Great Brain, Thomas "T.D." Fitzgerald. Set in the early days of Utah statehood (1896)in southern Utah, John "J.D." Fitzgerald recounts the amazing and mind blowing stunts and escapades of he and his brothers, among the minority of Catholics in a predominantly Mormon community. When the "Great Brain" puts his mind to
Note: The following is a review of the entire Great Brain seriesThe Great Brain is perhaps one of the finest American children's books ever writtenas are its companions in the Great Brain series. Reading this series in recent years has in some ways been akin to rereading Tom Sawyer as an adult, since what appeared as high-adventure to me as a fifth grader I now read through a Twainian lens of chuckles and nostalgia. John D. Fitzgerald was raised in Price, Utah, and based the Great Brain series
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