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The Flimflam Man
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4.3 out of 5
Based on 24 Ratings and 10 Reviews

Book Description
On a scorching July day in 1950, a fabulous fat man drives into Wetumka, Oklahoma. F. Bam Morrison is selling tickets to Bohn's United Circus Shows, and the townspeople are buying--all, that is, except ol' man Swank, who says F. Bam Morrison is a two-faced weasel. Smitten with Morrison, ten-year-old Bobbie Jo Hailey--and mean Clara Jean Knox, whom she befriends--unwittingly joins the effort to bam... More
Book Information
PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
BindingHardcover (4 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages96
ISBN-100374323461
ISBN-13978-0374323462
Publication Date03/25/1998
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About Darleen Bailey Beard (Author) : Growing up in the 1960s in Levittown, Pennsylvania, I was a foot taller than all my friends. My nickname was "Chicken Legs." I was terribly shy. And more than anything, I wanted to be good at somethin... more
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About Eileen Christelow (Illustrator) : When I was about three or four, I dreamed I could read. It was a recurring dream: turning page after page and reading all the words. But when I woke up, I could no longer read. Finally, in the first g... more
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