John Dennis Fitzgerald

In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.

Describes the exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah in the words of his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige and money.

The Great Brain faces the challenge of life at a strict Catholic boarding school with daring exploits and money-making schemes.

In turn-of-the-century Mormon Utah, Tom's great brain comes up with eight more schemes, most of them concerned with earning money.