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Original Title: The Great Brain Does it Again (Great Brain #7)
ISBN: 0440429838 (ISBN13: 9780440429838)
Edition Language: English
Series: The Great Brain #7
Literary Awards: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (1978)
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Title:The Great Brain Does it Again (The Great Brain #7)
Author:John D. Fitzgerald
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 144 pages
Published:August 15th 1976 by Yearling (first published 1975)
Categories:Childrens. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult

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This was hard to rate. It's an odd, interesting book. One tends to assume that this sort of series thing is going to be fairly light and generic, and I haven't read any of the earlier volumes so didn't much know what to expect. Furthermore, I usually find Mercer Mayer's art--though lovely and polished--a tad too saccharine.

However, this book is generally much better-written than the format might suggest. Fitzgerald uses a more complex vocabulary and style than one might expect. The book is still easily digestible (and short!), but it has some meat to it, stylistically and linguistically. A factor in the digestibility is that each chapter is essentially a self-contained story; there is some continuity to the book, reference to things that happened earleir, the passage of time, and so on, but esentially each chapter just offers another iteration of Tom, the "Great Brain," using his prodigious intellect to accomplish some feat, usually one designed to put money in his pocket. This aspect of the book was actually somewhat disappointing, as he doesn't seem all that clever to me--the story about the Indians, especially, depends not at all on Tom being smarter than everyone else but just on him being the only one willing to query the government about what's going on. I was hoping his tricks would be more clever.

On the other hand, Fitzgerald does craft an odd and interesting character in Tom. He seems almost a sociopath in some stories, given his (almost) exclusive focus on his own profit and his fundamental inability to understand how others might feel. The story about the rocking horse, especially, paints a slightly chilling picture, as the tragedy of the situation eludes Tom, with him caring only about getting his reward, in contrast to his younger brother's generosity. (Bonus: having a kid in a kid's book die of diabetes is a rather daring touch.) In fact, Tom's intervention on behalf of the Indians being bilked seemed out of character, as there was never anything in it for him. And the final story, about Toming hitting the teens and beginnig to get interested in girls, seems oddly anti-climactic (I assume this is the final book in the series). Nevertheless, these are pleasant and entertaining stories.

And Meyer's art is a further bonus. His black and white illustrations are dense and busy, reminding me almost of Edward Gorey in their nearly gothic detail. This is not a cute, sparkling world; Meyer's art suggests the darker subtexts of the book without being macabe or baroque. They're excellent illustrations.

Overall, I'd say this series deserves to have wider recognition than it seems to have today.

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T. D. Fitzgerald has to come up with fair ways to earn money these days, although they still seem to be a swindle. We have enjoyed this series very much and are ready to plow into the last book.

I loved this entire series and, now that I've remembered it, I'm going to get it for my son. I think he'll love them, too.

Girls ruin everything.

This is a series that I read as a kid and loved them. I am reading them with my kids now. They are fun and based in a Mormon town. If you're looking for literary quality, you should check elsewhere; they are well-written, just not the highest of quality. The stories, however, are very fun!

I really dont know how Fitzgerald keeps coming up with original stories for this series. The Great Brain Does it Again is a familiar mix of Tom the Exasperating and Tom the Helper incidents, with the Great Brain being praised just as much as he is criticized for his antics. Though there are new stories, the core of the book is the same as the others, and Tom is equal parts frustrating and brilliant, as always.One of the best moments in this book doesnt revolve around the Great Brain. The story

Set in southern Utah These boys get into all kinds of trouble, and then out again.

I liked it. This one has one of my favorite stories "The chute the chute"