Search results for Jack Gantos
Hole in My Life
$75.80 – Audio / Listening Library
In the summer of 1971, twenty-year-old Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. Cantos tells the story of this turning point in his life, and how his dedication to writing helped him to endure his time in prison. Buy or find out more→
Dead End in Norvelt
$14.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK
Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead... Buy or find out more→
Dead End in Norvelt
$23.95 – Hardback / Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Jack's summer has hit a dead end ...After being 'grounded for life', Jack is facing a summer of doing nothing. He might crash in his Dad's homemade plane, or catch the disease that makes you dance yourself to death, or fall foul... Buy or find out more→
Jack Gantos: An Author Kids Love
$42.95 – Hardback / Enslow Publishers
Jack Gantos is the popular author of over a dozen books about Rotten Ralph, a mischievous cat, as well as the Jack Henry and Joey Pigza books. In JACK GANTOS: AN AUTHOR KIDS LOVE, based on an interview with Gantos, Michelle... Buy or find out more→
Desire Lines
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK
Sixteen-year-old Walker has accidentally discovered that two female classmates are lovers. When a rabid evangelical preacher arrives in their town, a witch-hunt is launched against gay students and Walker, for some reason, is the... Buy or find out more→
Rotten Ralph Helps Out
$79.70 – Mixed media product / Live Oak Media (NY)
Beginning readers can follow Rotten Ralph as he tries to help Sarah with her school project in this hilarious story, now repackaged in a brand-new format. Full color. Buy or find out more→
Rotten Ralph Helps Out
$79.70 – Mixed media product / Live Oak Media (NY)
Beginning readers can follow Rotten Ralph as he tries to help Sarah with her school project in this hilarious story, now repackaged in a brand-new format. Full color. Buy or find out more→
What Would Joey Do?
$25.95 – Hardback / Turtleback Books
For use in schools and libraries only. The dazzling conclusion to the Joey Pigza trilogy has our hyperactive hero wound up when his long-separated parents appear to be getting interested in one another again. Buy or find out more→
Joey Pigza Loses Control
$16.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK
If people think Joey Pigza has problems, then they should meet his dad! When Joey gets to spend summer with him, he soon finds out why his mum was so worried. Can Joey live life his dad's way, or will the chaos take over? Buy or find out more→
What Would Joey Do?
$16.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK
The waiting is over for Joey Pigza fans! In this brilliant third book, Joey is attempting a breath-taking balancing act as he tries to keep a handle on his wild, wired behaviour without letting his hyperactively helpful ways spin... Buy or find out more→
Hole in My Life
$22.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK
Jack Gantos, bestselling author of the Joey Pigza books, had a peripatetic childhood around the US and the Caribbean. At 18 years old, he was doing a dead-end job on a Caribbean island, looking for adventure and a way to fund... Buy or find out more→
Zip Six: A Novel
$20.95 – Paperback / Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S.
A young hashish smuggler, befriended behind bars by an Elvis impersonator, struggles to survive the cruelties of prison life -- and of the freedom that follows. Buy or find out more→
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
$14.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK
Joey is a good kid, maybe even a great kid, but his teachers never know what he's going to do next. He sharpens his finger in the pencil-sharpener and swallows his house key. He can't sit still for more than a minute - Joey is... Buy or find out more→
Desire Lines
$15.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK
Sixteen year- old Walker has accidentally discovered that two female classmates are lovers. When a rabid evangelical preacher arrives in their town, a witch- hunt is launched against gay students and Walker, for some reason, is... Buy or find out more→
Zip Six: A Novel
$32.95 – Hardback / Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S.
Ray Jakes, a young hashish smuggler, is sent to prison in New York where he is befriended by an Elvis impersonator doing time for setting up Evis charity scams. Eventually Ray and Elvis win their freedom, by different means, and... Buy or find out more→
The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs
$14.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Everyone loves their mother. But what happens when you love her so much you can't bear to let her go - ever? That's the sign of the Love Curse. And Ivy's got it ...bad. Buy or find out more→
Practice Makes Perfect for Rotten Ralph: A Rotten Ralph Rotten Reader
$10.95 – Paperback / Farrar Straus Giroux
When the carnival comes to town, the world’s favorite fractious feline discovers the hilariously wrong way to victory before he gets it right. “Illustrated with Rubel’s deadpan pictures, this is a prize for... Buy or find out more→
Practice Makes Perfect for Rotten Ralph
$25.85 – CD-Audio / Live Oak Media (NY)
It's carnival time for Ralph, Saran and Percy. Ralph wants to play games and win prizes, but cousin Percy keeps beating him. So Ralph decides to cheat. Illustrations. Buy or find out more→
Joey Pigza Loses Control
$22.95 – Hardback / Perfection Learning
In this Newbery Honor sequel to Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, Joey wants his six-week visit with his dad to count, but his dad's not an easy guy to love. Buy or find out more→
Practice Makes Perfect for Rotten Ralph
$19.85 – Audio cassette / Live Oak Media (NY)
It's carnival time for Ralph, Saran and Percy. Ralph wants to play games and win prizes, but cousin Percy keeps beating him. So Ralph decides to cheat. Illustrations. Buy or find out more→
Practice Makes Perfect for Rotten Ralph
$57.75 – Audio / Live Oak Media (NY)
It's carnival time for Ralph, Saran and Percy. Ralph wants to play games and win prizes, but cousin Percy keeps beating him. So Ralph decides to cheat. Illustrations. Buy or find out more→
Practice Makes Perfect for Rotten Ralph
$51.75 – Mixed media product / Live Oak Media (NY)
It's carnival time for Ralph, Saran and Percy. Ralph wants to play games and win prizes, but cousin Percy keeps beating him. So Ralph decides to cheat. Illustrations. Buy or find out more→
Best in Show for Rotten Ralph
$51.75 – Mixed media product / Live Oak Media (NY)
Rotten Ralph has his eyes on the prize for Best in Show at the cat show, but he's up against Perfect Percy, his overachieving cousin, so he lets Sarah help him get in shape. Lots of laughs, an interesting story line and endearing... Buy or find out more→
Rotten Ralph Feels Rotten
$51.75 – Mixed media product / Live Oak Media (NY)
Jack Gantos reads his wacky adventure about the irascible red cat with a penchant for disaster! Buy or find out more→
Rotten Ralph Helps Out
$51.75 – Mixed media product / Live Oak Media (NY)
Beginning readers can follow Rotten Ralph as he tries to help Sarah with her school project in this hilarious story, now repackaged in a brand-new format. Full color. Buy or find out more→
Rotten Ralph Helps Out
$33.80 – Mixed media product / Live Oak Media (NY)
Beginning readers can follow Rotten Ralph as he tries to help Sarah with her school project in this hilarious story, now repackaged in a brand-new format. Full color. Buy or find out more→
Rotten Ralph Helps Out
$19.95 – Hardback / Turtleback Books
Beginning readers can follow Rotten Ralph as he tries to help Sarah with her school project in this hilarious story, now repackaged in a brand-new format. Full color. Buy or find out more→
Joey Pigza Loses Control
$11.95 – Hardback / Perfection Learning
In this Newbery Honor winner, Joey finds out his dad is just as wired as he is. Buy or find out more→
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
$11.95 – Hardback / Perfection Learning
In this National Book Award finalist, Joey Pigza tries hard to be a good kid trapped in a wired body. Buy or find out more→
Hole in My Life
$26.95 – Hardback / Perfection Learning
In this Michael L. Printz Honor Book, the Newbery Honor-winning creator of the Joey Pigza books shares the true story of how he became a writer the hard way by learning a valuable lesson while he was in college. Buy or find out more→
Rotten Ralph
$14.95 – Mixed media product / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Track 1, page turn signals; track 2, no page turn signals. Buy or find out more→
Rotten Ralph's Rotten Christmas
$25.95 – Hardback / Perfection Learning
Rotten Ralph, the cat, is not at all nice to the Christmas visitor. Buy or find out more→
Rotten Ralph's Trick or Treat!
$34.71 – Hardback / Perfection Learning
When Sarah takes Ralph to a Halloween party, Ralph pours goldfish into the punch bowl and takes the lid off the popcorn popper. Then the hostess asks them to leave, but Sarah forgives Ralph for his naughtiness, saying Oh Ralph,... Buy or find out more→
Joey Pigza Loses Control
$93.35 – Hardback / Tokuma Shoten/Tsai Fong Books
Japanese edition of Joey Pigza loses control. In this sequal Joey is able to control his ADD with meds, but this estranged father thinks he does not need them Prize winning story. In Japanese. Buy or find out more→
Funny Business
$27.00 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a... Buy or find out more→
The Exquisite Corpse Adventure: A Progressive Story Game
$69.95 – CD-Audio / Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
A collaboration between the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance and the Library of Congress's Center for the Book --Jacket flap. Buy or find out more→
The Exquisite Corpse Adventure: A Progressive Story Game
$27.95 – CD-Audio / Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
A collaboration between the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance and the Library of Congress's Center for the Book --Jacket flap. Buy or find out more→
The Exquisite Corpse Adventure: A Progressive Story Game
$27.95 – CD-Audio / Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
A collaboration between the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance and the Library of Congress's Center for the Book --Jacket flap. Buy or find out more→
The Exquisite Corpse Adventure: A Progressive Story Game
$55.95 – Audio / Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Twenty top kids' authors and illustrators, including Jon Sciezka, Kate DiCamillo, Jack Gantos, Lemony Snicket, and Chris Van Dusen, collaborate on this zany, progressive story filled with werewolves, mad scientists, a talking pig,... Buy or find out more→