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Updale, Eleanor

Johnny Swanson

384 pp. | Random/Fickling | March, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-385-75198-8 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-385-75199-5 $19.99
(2) 4-6 With his WWI widow mother having trouble making ends meet, eleven-year-old scam artist Johnny places adverts for gullible newspaper readers. (Want your baby to stop wetting the bed? Send an SASE and one shilling for the answer.) He also unwittingly gets his mother charged with murder. The mystery-story plot moves convincingly and quickly, layered with thought-provoking questions about respect and civility.
Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2011

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