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The Flimflam Man
By Beard, Darleen Bailey & Christelow, Eileen
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37432-346-2
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, c1998.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 1998
Gr 3-6 Ostensibly revolving around a confidence game that the residents of Wetumka, OK, lost during the summer of 1950, this quirky novel is not quite what it first seems. Beard gives her charmless con man the catalytic power to heal stuttering and forge friendships while, of course, lying "smooth as glass" to everyone. Bobbie Jo, the 10-year-old narrator with a speech impediment, sets the scene and tells how life in the small town changes when F. Bam Morrison drives up in his fancy turquoise Chevy and announces that the circus is...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
