i have some ideas for a continuation of The Great Brain series.
- Chris DEC 2025
ORIGINAL SERIES
1 The Great Brain
Chapter 1 - The Magic Water Closet -
Chapter 2 - Revenge Can Be Sour -
Chapter 3 - The Great Brain Saves the Day
Chapter 4 - Abie Glassman Finds a Home
Chapter 5 - Greek Immigrant
Chapter 6 - A Wreath for Abie
Chapter 7 - The New Teacher
Chapter 8 - The Great Brain's Reformation
2 More Adventures of the Great Brain
CHAPTER 1 - The Night the Monster Walked
Chapter 2 - The Taming of Britches Dotty
CHAPTER 3 - The Time Papa Got Lost
Chapter 4 -Tom Scoops Papa’s Newspaper
Chapter 5 - The Death of Old Butch.
Chapter 6 - The Ghost of Silverlode
3 Me and My Little Brain
Chapter 1 - The Wheeler-Dealer
Chapter 2 - The Born Loser
Chapter 3 - Frankie Pennyworth
Chapter 4 - Solving Frankie's mental block.
Chapter 5 - Frankie Takes Over
CHAPTER 6 - The Escape of Cal Roberts
CHAPTER 7 - Hostage
CHAPTER 8 - My Little Brain Against Cal Roberts
4 The Great Brain at the Academy
Chapter 1 - Tom Spots a Card Shark
Chapter 2 - Tom at the Throttle
Chapter 3 - Off on the Wrong Foot
Chapter 4 - Tom's First Day at the Academy
Chapter 5 - From Bad to Worse
Chapter 6 - The Academy Candy Store
Chapter 7 - Goodness Doesn't Pay
Chapter 8 - The Mental Marvel
Chapter 9 - Mystery of the Missing Mattress
Chapter 10 - Basketball and the Bishop
****MISSING STORYLINE ( JAN- JUNE 1898) at The Catholic Academy!!
5 The Great Brain Reforms
Chapter 1 - The Return Home
Chapter 2 - The Tin Can Swindle
Chapter 3 - The Tug of War
Chapter 4 - Tom Hooks a Fish Named Sweyn
Chapter 5 - Alkali Flats.
Chapter 6 - The Runaway
Chapter 7 - The Magnetic Stick
Chapter 8 - The Good Raft Explorer
Chapter 9 - The Wreck of the Explorer
Chapter 10 - The Trial of the Great Brain
6 The Return of the Great Brain
Chapter 1 - The Adenville Academy
Chapter 2 - Tom and the Wild Jackass
Chapter 3 - The Train Robbery
Chapter 4 - Tom and the Numbers Trick
Chapter 5 - Tom the Magician
Chapter 6 - Puppy Love
Chapter 7 - The Wheel of Fortune
Chapter 8 - The Game of Outlaw and Posse
7 The Great Brain Does it Again
Chapter 1 - The Buried Treasure Swindle
Chapter 2 - The Missing Rocking Horse
Chapter 3 - The Horse Race
Chapter 4 - Tom and the Dude
Chapter 5 - The Chute-the-Chute
Chapter 6 - Tom Becomes an Indian Blood Brother
Chapter 7 - Herbie the Poet
Chapter 8 - Thirteen
8 The Great Brain is Back
Chapter 1 - The Slippery Soap Deal
Chapter 2 - The Numbers Game
Chapter 3 - Indians
Chapter 4 - The Great Spelling Bee
Chapter 5 - The Dogfights
Chapter 6 - Smoke
Chapter 7 - Blue Lake
Chapter 8 - The Swindler is Swindled
Hurricane, Utah is more like Adenville
Andy Anderson, a boy who loses his lower left leg to infection
Parley Benson, son of a bounty hunter and possesses his own coonskin cap, a Bowie knife, repeating air rifle.
Dotty Blake, also known as "Britches Dotty", a "tomboy" Tom teaches to read and write, Dotty beats up Sammy Leeds when he teases her.
Muriel Cranston Girl whose pigtails get dipped in ink by an unknown culprit, leading to Tom's refusal to tattle and subsequent whipping by Mr. Standish.
Hal Evans - put a live frog in Muriel Cranston’s desk
Danny Forester son of the town's barber. Danny's left eye always seems half-shut
Roger Gillis - about six years old whose parents wouldn’t let him own a dog
Eddie Huddle, Frankie's best friend and son of the town blacksmith.
Frank and Allan Jensen, who are children of Scandinavian immigrants. Lost in cave.
Howard Kay, one of John's best friends, who has "a round face like a pumpkin"
Vasillios "Basil" Kokovinis, a Greek boy who recently immigrated to America.
Sammy Leeds, who is something of a bully. His father is bigoted
Christine Mackie - teases dotty, jumps rope
Irene Olsen - Girl jumping rope
Jimmie Peterson, another of John's best friends, mom owns the boarding house
Polly Reagan who becomes Tom's girlfriend when he turns 13
Seth Smith, a local Mormon boy close to Tom's age. He is friends with both Tom and John
Herbie Sties, a fat poet kid originally from SLC
Harold Vickers, son of the district attorney
Marie Vinson, daughter of the Vinsons
Larry Knudson and William Bartell - dead Mormon kids from 1892 in Silverlode
Jimmy Gruber, a diabetic boy who dies in 1897/1898
Joan Smedley, who died of pneumonia just before Christmas 1896
Bishop Aden Founder of Adenville and member of Mormon LDS church
Sheriff Baker - spent a great deal of time tracking down Paiute Indians who left the reservation in the county
— Robert Bates got stung on the horse he bought from Steve Andrews
Charles Blake - has to use a crutch to get around., father of dotty, moved there with help to old Fitzgerald home
Mr. James Bowman - owned a big ranch about twenty miles from Adenville
Mr. Brown - Hay, Grain, and Feed Store
Mr. Carter Runs the creamery.
Frank Collopy - bank worker
Pierre Dussierre - Sheep herder
Dave Ecord gave Blake and the daughter a ride into town
Pete Ferguson - runs a logging camp about twenty miles from here
Mr. Forester - Danny’s dad, the Barber
Mr. Douglas and Mrs. Granger Along with Calvin Whitlock, these two are members of the school board
Abie Glassman, a Jewish itinerant salesman who dies of starvation.
Mr. Haggerty - drunk
Mr. Harmon - owner of ZCMI store
Mrs. Hazzleton - Mr Whitlock’s housekeeper
Fred Harvey - Town Plumber
Reverend Holcomb - Protestant minister
Reverend Ingle came to town and held a revival meeting in a big tent on the campground, lasting one week. All the Protestants in town went to the revival meeting.
Mr. Jamison, the carpenter
Mr. and Mrs. Jensen Parents of Frank and Allan.
Father Giovanni - Father Joe - came once a year for one week; baptized /married Catholics, and held confessions / masses in Community Church
George Kokovinis - Runs Palace Cafe and speaks English, to America 5 years before wife/son.
Alex Kramer - Friend of papa, always trading up
Nels Larson - Stationmaster, ticket agent, telegrapher, express agent, and freight agent at the railroad depot
Mrs. Lee - brother, Stanley, isn’t in the Army like she tells people. He is serving time in the State Penitentiary. This fact was shared by Tom’s paper…
Dr. LeRoy - town doctor
Mr. Monaire the biggest sheepman in the county
Mrs. Olsen Bring sandwiches and milk for everyone standing vigil at entrance to Skeleton Cave
Mrs. Peterson - runs the boarding house, jimmie’s mom
Mr. Peters - a Civil War veteran
Sarah Pickens - is going to die an old maid
Judge Potter - local judge
Aunt Sarah - Danny Foresters aunt
Mr. and Mrs. Smedley - Own a big ranch about five miles from town. The mare belonged to their daughter, Joan, who died of pneumonia just before Christmas 1896
Steve Smith - Seth’s uncle who played a ghost at Silverlode
Miles Standish - teacher at original schoolhouse grade 1-6 replacing Miss Thatcher (retired)
Jerry Stout - leather worker, bridles, saddles
Fred Tanner livery stable.
Mrs. Taylor Lady in town whom Mamma visits when she is sick, also lives next to Petersons
Milton Tedford, worked on the railroad as a brakeman
Dave Teller shoemaker.
Mr. Thompson Butcher
Calvin Whitlock, the banker, widower no kids
Mrs. Winters Bring sandwiches and milk for everyone standing vigil at the entrance to Skeleton Cave
Father O’Malley - a middle-aged man wearing the traditional black robe and hood of a Jesuit priest.
Father Rodriguez - jet-black hair and a swarthy complexion inherited from his Spanish ancestors. But the dominant impression Tom had of the superintendent were the eyes and the face. The eyes were as black as wet coal and the stern face looked as if it would break if the priest smiled.
Bishop Miglaccio - bishop of the diocese that at the time consisted of four states.
Fitzgerald Family
John Dennis "J.D." Fitzgerald - narrator of the series, and youngest of the three brothers.
Thomas "Tom" Dennis "T.D." Fitzgerald Jr. - mischievous middle brother and swindler extraordinaire.
Sweyn Dennis "S.D." Fitzgerald - eldest brother
Thomas Dennis Fitzgerald Sr. ("Papa" or "Fitz") - patriarch of the family. Owner, editor, and publisher of the town paper, the "Adenville Weekly Advocate". He is an Irish Catholic originally from the eastern United States who headed west to seek his fortune as a newspaper writer and publisher. He is one of Adenville's leading citizens, and highly respected amongst the residents as he is the only citizen of Adenville to hold a university diploma.” I’ll send a telegram right off to the Smithsonian Institution”
Tena "Mamma" Fitzgerald - The matriarch of the family and homemaker, of Danish-Scandinavian ancestry. Her father was named Sweyn, which she named her first son in his honor.
Frankie Pennyworth - An unconscious boy rescued by Uncle Mark after a rock slide kills his brother and parents.
Aunt Bertha - A Methodist widow who lives with the Fitzgerald family, not actually a blood relative but still called "aunt" because she has been considered a part of their family. John explains that after Bertha's husband died, his parents took her in as she had no children, social network, or living relatives.
Uncle Mark - The town marshal and DEPUTY sheriff.
Aunt Cathie - Mark's wife and Papa's sister, adopts kid in SLC
New Book Ideas 2025
4.5 The Great Brain Returns to the Academy
UNNAMED BOOK - West High School 8th grade under fake name to avoid Academy
9 - SEPT 1899 - DECEMBER 1899
UNNAMED BOOK West High School 8th grade
10 - Jan 1900 - May 1900 -
UNNAMED BOOK Summer with JD/Frankie
11 - June 1900 to August 1900
Proposed AGE and TIMELINE and Grade for JD, TD, SD, and Frankie..
