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Dead End in Norvelt

Dead End in Norvelt

Jack Gantos

Jack's summer has hit a dead end . Old people seem to be dying faster than Miss Volker can write their obituaries, and Jack is starting to worry that it might not just be the rats that are eating the rat poison .

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Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade

Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade

Jack Gantos

In a prequel to Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade , Jack moves with his unbearable sister to Miami, Florida, and tries to break some of his bad habits but finds himself irresistibly drawn to things disgusting, gross...

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