The Charlatan's Boy
Have you ever heard that the colors red and yellow catch the eye more than say, green and blue? Well, the cover of this book certainly caught my attention! The Charlatan's Boy by Jonathan Rogers is a novel written for 10-15 year olds but this 57 year old enjoyed it immensely. It kept me happily entertained for several lunch breaks. I felt like I was reading a book by Mark Twain and I wanted it to go on and on. Written in the first person by our narrator Grady, it uses phrases like, "Chapter One, In which I jump out of a box and play the Wild Man..." or, "Chapter 11, In which we meet the world's most beautiful eighty-two-year-old." As far as Grady knows, he was orphaned and found by Professor Floyd under a palmetto bush when he was tiny. Floyd is the only family he knows. Grady and Professor Floyd are hucksters, "pulling a variety of hoaxes and flimflams on the good citizens of the Corenwald frontier". Professor Floyd is forever looking f