4 sound discs (approximately 75 min. each) : 4 3/4 in.
Published Jan. 1, 2007 by Random House, Listening Library.
The Great Brain is Tom D. Fitzgerald, aged ten. The story is told by J.D., a sometimes confounded but always admiring younger brother. Such people as Mr. Standish, the mean schoolmaster, regret the day they came up against The Great Brain. But others, like the Jensen kids lost in Skeleton Cave, Basil the Greek kid, or Andy, who has lost his leg and his friends, know that Tom's great brain never fails to find a way home.
I love this book because of the plot. It's fun to see a genius from the point of view of his gullible younger brother and laugh at both the cleverness and the stupidity.
Haven't read this since childhood. It holds up fairly well. I remember really loving this series as a child. The first in the series is good, though not as good as I had remembered - I'm guessing it was books later in the series which made me love them so much.
