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Books in Great Brain series

  • The Great Brain at the Academy

    John D. Fitzgerald

    Hardcover (Dial, June 3, 1980)
    The Great Brain faces the challenge of life at a strict Catholic boarding school with daring exploits and money-making schemes.
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  • More Adventures of the Great Brain

    John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer

    Hardcover (Dial, Jan. 1, 2000)
    In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.
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  • Me and My Little Brain

    John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer

    Hardcover (Dial, Jan. 1, 2000)
    When the Great Brain leaves Adenville to attend school, nine-year-old J.D. is left to discover his own significant talents
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  • The Great Brain

    John Fitzgerald

    Paperback (Yearling, July 15, 1972)
    The Great Brain is Tom D. Fitzgerald, aged ten. The story is told by J.D., a sometimes confounded but always admiring younger brother. Such people as Mr. Standish, the mean schoolmaster, regret the day they came up against The Great Brain. But others, like the Jensen kids lost in Skeleton Cave, Basil, the Greek kid, or Andy, who has lost his leg and his friends, know that Tom's great brain never fails to find a way home.
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  • The Great Brain is Back

    John D. Fitzgerald

    Hardcover (Dial, March 1, 1995)
    The final book of a popular series set in 1890s Utah begins with Tom's summertime return from the Academy, older and under the spell of a pretty face, but otherwise unchanged in his money-loving heart, as his younger brother and the whole town soon realizes.
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  • The Great Brain Does It Again

    John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer

    Hardcover (Dial, Jan. 1, 1975)
    Crafty Tom Fitzgerald applies his native wits to eight mysteries, swindles, high-jinks, escapades, and artful antics, some of which he perpetrates himself
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  • More Adventures of the Great Brain

    John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer

    Paperback (Yearling, Aug. 15, 1971)
    In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.
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  • Me and My Little Brain

    John Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer

    Paperback (Yearling, Sept. 15, 1972)
    When that shrewd conniver, Tom, the infamous Great Brain, is sent to school in Salt Lake City, his favorite victim, J.D., figures he can step into his brother's shoes as town hustler. Nothing's wrong with his technique--it's just that he hasn't got the instincts of a real con man. But when outlaws kidnap J.D.'s four-year-old adopted brother, Frankie, J.D.'s talents find their proper inspiration. And if everybody thinks it looks like curtains for Frankie it's because they haven't counted on what a "little brain" combined with a big heart can do.
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  • The Great Brain Does It Again

    John D. Fitzgerald

    Hardcover (Dial, Jan. 1, 1975)
    Crafty Tom Fitzgerald applies his native wits to eight mysteries, swindles, high-jinks, escapades, and artful antics, some of which he perpetrates himself
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  • The Great Brain

    John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, May 1, 1989)
    In a small town in turn-of-the-century Utah, a precocious boy hatches scheme after scheme to gain prestige and money.
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  • More Adventures of the Great Brain

    John D. Fitzgerald

    Hardcover (Dial, Jan. 1, 1969)
    In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.
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  • Me and My Little Brain

    John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer

    Hardcover (Dial, June 3, 1985)
    In the absence of his older brother, the Great Brain, J. D. finds that his own little brain can accomplish feats on a somewhat lesser scale.
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