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47 pp.
| Holt |
September, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-8050-6387-0$$16.00
(4)
1-3
Illustrated by
Ben Caldwell.
Mean Spencer Ross offers to sell his crystal mumbo jumbo marble to Tommy for ten dollars. Tommy ponders a number of schemes to obtain it, including peddling flowers to a neighbor and swapping a garter snake for the marble. The story line, like the accompanying line art, seems dated and rather bland, but the relationship between Tommy and his tagalong brother Bradley is appealing.