Tommy Trouble and the Magic Marble is a children's novel written by Ralph Fletcher and illustrated by Ben Caldwell.

Tommy, who loves collecting, needs ten dollars to buy a magic marble from another boy.

He tries to pick flowers from his mother's prize rose garden to sell to a neighbor, and tries to trade his little brother's snake.

Ben Caldwell's black-and-white drawings are a plus; they have an angularity that nicely straddles the line between realism and cartoons.

"[1] Steve Clancy in his review for School Library Journal was not very positive saying that "it's unlikely that this slight story line will hold readers' interest, and while marbles still hold a certain fascination for this age group, they are way down on a list headed by Game Boys and Pokémon cards.