Age
7-10
Grade
2+
Darleen Bailey Beard, Eileen Christelow
The Flimflam Man
Paperback
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Sept. 8, 2003)
On a scorching July day in 1950, a fabulous fat man drives into Wetumka, Oklahoma. F. Bam Morrison is selling tickets to Bohn's United Circus Shows, and the townspeople are buying--all, that is, except ol' man Swank, who says F. Bam Morrison is a two-faced weasel. Smitten with Morrison, ten-year-old Bobbie Jo Hailey--and mean Clara Jean Knox, whom she befriends--unwittingly joins the effort to bamboozle Wetumka. When Bobbie Jo realizes her mistake, Morrison is on his way out of town, leaving her disappointed but intact--and greatly enriched by her relationship with the flimflam man. Lovingly illustrated by Eileen Christelow, Darleen Bailey Beard's delightful story is based on a real episode in Wetumka's history, still celebrated annually as Sucker Day!
- Series
- Sunburst Book
- ISBN
- 0374423458 /
- Pages
- 96
- Weight
- 3.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.3 x 0.3 in.
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