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• 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."

• 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: 6.67