The Flimflam Man

On a scorching July day in 1950, a fabulous fat man drives into Wetumka, Oklahoma. F. Bam Morrison is selling tickets to Bohn's United Circus Shows, and the townspeople are buying--all, that is, except ol' man Swank, who says F. Bam Morrison is a two-faced weasel. Smitten with Morrison, ten-year-old Bobbie Jo Hailey--and mean Clara Jean Knox, whom she befriends--unwittingly joins the effort to bamboozle Wetumka. When Bobbie Jo realizes her mistake, Morrison is on his way out of town, leaving her disappointed but intact--and greatly enriched by her relationship with the flimflam man.

Lovingly illustrated by Eileen Christelow, Darleen Bailey Beard's delightful story is based on a real episode in Wetumka's history, still celebrated annually as Sucker Day

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 09/08/2003
ISBN: 9780374423452
Pages: 85
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.69h x 5.16w x 0.26d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 20775 / Flimflam Man
Reading Level: 3.7 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 1