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Michelle Wildgen: IMG A Few Initial and Not-Comprehensive Meditations on Group Novels

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I am a sucker for a book about a group. What reminded me of this was Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age, her homage to Mary McCarthy's endlessly re-readable... Continue »
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The Great Brain (Great Brain)

by John D. Fitzgerald

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Originally published in 1967, the first of eight best-selling Great Brain titles introduces us to J. D., an eight-year-old boy living in Utah in 1896, and his older brother Tom, aka The Great Brain, a silver-tongued con artist with a genius for making a profit. Whether he's charging admission to see Papa's new water closet, the first in town; getting rid of the mean new schoolmaster; or teaching a boy with a peg leg that he is not useless, Tom's great brain turns every situation to his advantage.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780803725904
ill.:
Mayer, Mercer
Author:
Mayer, Mercer
Author:
Fitzgerald, John D.
Publisher:
Dial Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Action & Adventure
Subject:
Children's 4-8 - Fiction - General
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General
Subject:
Humorous Stories
Subject:
Juvenile literature
Subject:
Puzzles
Subject:
Action & Adventure - General
Subject:
Brothers
Series:
Great Brain
Series Volume:
99-7
Publication Date:
January 2000
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
Children/juvenile
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
856x574x73 64
Age Level:
04-08
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