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• Brave Buffalo Fighter: Waditaka Tatanka Kisisohitika by John D. Fitzgerald (1973)

  [7/10]

  "As you can expect from any Fitzgerald work, you get an excellent picture of the period and setting in which the events take place. You get a detailed portrayal of life in a pioneer wagon train, including the reasons for making the trek in the first place and the risks involved in the journey itself."

• Great Brain Does It Again, The by John D. Fitzgerald (1975)

  [5/10]

  "If you have read the other six volumes in the series, you'll still find enough fun here to keep reading this seventh volume, but you probably won't make this the book that you reread."

• Great Brain Is Back, The by John D. Fitzgerald (1995)

  [5/10]

  "I can only recommend The Great Brain Is Back to absolute fans of the series or people who want to say they have read every book in the series. This eighth volume certainly doesn't stand on its own, but it does let you spend just a little bit longer with these loveable characters."

• Great Brain Reforms, The by John D. Fitzgerald (1973)

  [6/10]

  "Fitzgerald . . . captures the essence of growing up as a boy and the complex relationships with parents, peers, and siblings."

• Great Brain, The by John D. Fitzgerald (1967)

  [8/10]

  "I loved The Great Brain as a kid, and I still love its charm and wit. Fitzgerald places interesting characters in a fascinating old-West setting and puts them through fun adventures."

• Me and My Little Brain by John D. Fitzgerald (1971)

  [8/10]

  "I find this the most touching of all the Great Brain books. It tells a story of true brotherly love developing between John and Frankie, and the emotions John feels as he changes from hating Frankie to laying his life on the line to rescue the adopted brother he has come to adore."

• More Adventures of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald (1969)

  [7/10]

  "Fitzgerald continues to chronicle his adventures with his older brother Tom, the Great Brain. This volume gets a little repetitive with the opening and closing chapters both involving the boys sneaking out at night to places forbidden by their parents. In each case, Tom shames other boys into going out late at night to prove his point, either that monsters do exist or that ghosts don't."

• Papa Married a Mormon by John D. Fitzgerald (1955)

  [7/10]

  "Fitzgerald relates a touching story about how his father and mother met, married, and started a family in a frontier town of rural Utah."

• Return of the Great Brain, The by John D. Fitzgerald (1974)

  [6/10]

  "Although Tom Fitzgerald has supposedly reformed, he continues to use his great brain to wheel and deal -- sometimes to solve a murder, other times to just fatten his pocketbook."

• Uncle Will and the Fitzgerald Curse by John D. Fitzgerald (1961)

  [6/10]

  "You get a pretty clear picture of life in a frontier mining town, and you care about what happens to Will, even though the successes in his life come way too easily."

  Average score: 6.50