The Great Brain At The Academy by John Fitzgerald

Told from the viewpoint of a young boy who leaves his small-town family to attend a strict boarding academy, this installment follows his struggles to fit in, the clever schemes and mischief that follow him from home, and the ways those antics test friendships, authority, and his own developing sense of right and wrong; a warm, humorous coming-of-age tale that mixes pranks and moral lessons against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century American life.

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