Me and My Little Brain Tom a k a the Great Brain is off to boarding school Now his little brother J D is free to follow in Tom s ingenious conniving and profitable footsteps All of J D s attempts at turning a profit fa

Tom, a.k.a the Great Brain, is off to boarding school Now his little brother, J D is free to follow in Tom s ingenious, conniving, and profitable footsteps All of J D s attempts at turning a profit fail miserably, and he soon realizes that he just doesn t have that crafty Great Brain knack But when his younger brother is kidnapped, J D finds that his little braiTom, a.k.a the Great Brain, is off to boarding school Now his little brother, J D is free to follow in Tom s ingenious, conniving, and profitable footsteps All of J D s attempts at turning a profit fail miserably, and he soon realizes that he just doesn t have that crafty Great Brain knack But when his younger brother is kidnapped, J D finds that his little brain may not be so ordinary after all.
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[PDF] í Free Read Ð Me and My Little Brain : by John D. Fitzgerald Mercer Mayer ¸
139 John D. Fitzgerald Mercer Mayer
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Title: [PDF] í Free Read Ð Me and My Little Brain : by John D. Fitzgerald Mercer Mayer ¸
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OFFICIAL WEBSITE REFERENCED REPORTS John Dennis Fitzgerald was born in Price, Utah, on February 3, 1906, to Thomas and Minnie Melsen Fitzgerald His father had a pharmacy degree but engaged in a number of business ventures and served on the Price Town Council for four years John graduated from Carbon High School and at the age of eighteen and left Utah to pursue a career as a jazz drummer He worked in a variety of occupations during his life, including newspaper reporter for the World Tribune in New York City, foreign correspondent for United Press, advertising and purchasing agent, and bank auditor He also served on Wendell Willkie s staff when Willkie was running for president.At the time his first book, Papa Married a Mormon 1955 , was published, he was living in Los Angeles and working as a steel buyer Fitzgerald had collaborated with his sister, Belle Fitzgerald Empey, to write this book Her name was not included as coauthor of the book because it was written in the first person Papa Married a Mormon was very popular and was reprinted in several foreign language editions, including Chinese Twice chosen as a Book of the Month Club selection, it was also serialized in McCall s Magazine A sequel, Mamma s Boarding House, appeared in 1958.Fitzgerald moved to Denver in 1960 where he tried for a short time to make his living as a full time writer He later reported that I quit my job and went to a mountain cabin to make my living writing I had to sell my jack and a tire to get back to Denver When I got there I sold my typewriter and swore I would never write again His wife later bought him another typewriter and he eventually resumed writing.He had a very successful writing career, publishing than 500 magazine articles, as well as poetry and songs and two books on writing, The Professional Story Writer and His Art 1963 and Structuring Your Novel From Basic Idea to Finished Manuscript 1972.His most successful and widely read novels are the juvenile books in the Great Brain Series They were loosely based on the adventures of his brother Thomas N Fitzgerald Books in this series include The Great Brain 1967 , More Adventures of the Great Brain 1969 , Me and My Little Brain 1971 , The Great Brain at the Academy 1972 , The Great Brain Reforms 1973 , The Return of the Great Brain 1974 , and The Great Brain Does It Again 1976.The Great Brain Series has led to one of the most asked questions in Utah literature Where is Adenville, Utah Adenville is a fictional town created by Fitzgerald, but most readers believe that the geographical setting loosely fits that of a small town in southern Utah.Fitzgerald and his wife, Joan, moved to Titusville, Florida, in about 1972 where he continued his writing career He died there May 20, 1988, at the age of 82.