YOUNGER FICTION
Fletcher, Ralph

Tommy Trouble and the Magic Marble

(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.

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