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    The Trouble in Me

    Gantos, Jack

    A sharp-edged misadventure for teens from the Newbery Medalist-the perfect bridge between the Norvelt novels and his Printz Honor-winning YA autobiography, Hole in My Life.

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    Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue: A Jack Henry Adventure

    Jack Gantos

    From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, eight side-splitting stories about a boy who is doing his best to keep his head above water

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    Desire Lines

    Jack Gantos

    Sixteen-year-old Walker has accidentally discvered 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…

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    The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza

    Jack Gantos

    The fifth and final book in the groundbreaking Joey Pigza series by Newbery Medalist Gantos ( Dead End in Norvelt ) brings the beloved chronicle of this troubled every-boy to…

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    Joey Pigza Loses Control

    Jack Gantos

    Joey, who is taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the father he has never known and meets a grown-up version of…

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    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…

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    From Norvelt to Nowhere

    Jack Gantos

    But when the real murderer returns and another old lady dies, he starts to worry that he might not be showing the best judgment. Together with Miss Volker, the last…

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    The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs

    Jack Gantos

    In his third book for young adults, Gantos scripts a completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor, he depicts a group of people bound together by love, compulsion…

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    Desire Lines

    Jack Gantos

    When 16-year-old Walker gets caught up in a witch-hunt against homosexuals, he is left to stand by and watch as a tragedy unfolds.

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    Writing Radar

    Jack Gantos

    Newberry Medal winner Jack Gantos shares advice for how to be the best brilliant writer in this funny and practical creative writing guide perfect for middle-grade readers.

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    Hole in My Life

    Jack Gantos

    In the summer of 1971, Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For $10,000, he recklessly agreed…

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    Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

    Jack Gantos

    In this National Book Award finalist, Joey Pigza tries hard to be a good kid trapped in a wired body.

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    Dead End in Norvelt

    Jack Gantos

    From an award-winning author, the riotously funny story of a boy’s hometown misadventures.

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    Practice Makes Perfect for Rotten Ralph: A Rotten Ralph Rotten Reader

    Jack Gantos

    When the carnival comes to town, the world’s favorite fractious feline discovers the hilariously wrong way to victory before he gets it right. Full color.

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    Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade

    Jack Gantos

    From the Newbery Medal winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, eight more hysterical semi-autobiographical Jack Henry stories about a sixth grader’s trials and tribulations

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    Jack’s New Power: Stories from a Caribbean Year

    Jack Gantos

    From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, life for Jack Henry in a brand-new place is filled with the same old craziness

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    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…

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    I Am Not Joey Pigza

    Jack Gantos

    Joey’s world is turned upside down when his deadbeat dad wins the lottery.

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    Joey Pigza Loses Control

    Jack Gantos

    In the title, the word control is upside-down and backwards.

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    What Would Joey Do?

    Jack Gantos

    Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop…

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    From Norvelt to Nowhere

    Jack Gantos

    Young Jack accompanies Miss Volker on a wild pursuit of the chief suspect in the Norvelt murders, while being pursued themselves.

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    Dead End in Norvelt

    Jack Gantos

    Winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt chronicles an incredible two…

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    Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

    Jack Gantos

    In this National Book Award finalist, Joey Pigza tries hard to be a good kid trapped in a wired body.

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    Jack’s Black Book

    Jack Gantos

    This is Gantos’ third book about Jack Henry, continuing the hilarious adventures of the 13-year-old boy.

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    Rotten Ralph Helps Out (1 Paperback/1 CD)

    Jack Gantos

    In this first in a series of Rotten Ralph readers, Jack Gantos reads his tale of the irrepressible cat with a penchant for disaster. When Ralph tries to help Sarah…

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    Rotten Ralph

    Jack Gantos

    Ralph, a very, very, nasty cat, finally sees the error of his ways–or does he?

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    What Would Joey Pigza Do?

    Jack Gantos

    ‘Joey Pigza, you need a life!’ Grandma wants Joey to find a friend, stop running around after his NUTTY parents, and start looking after himself. But Joey’s got other plans…

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    Joey Pigza Loses Control

    Jack Gantos

    Joey’s dad is well and truly wired! After months of nagging, Joey Pigza is finally allowed to spend the summer holidays with his dad. Joey so wants to believe his…

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    The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza

    Jack Gantos

    Joey Pigza is back in his fifth hilarious adventure, with illustrations by David Tazzyman.

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    I Am Not Joey Pigza

    Jack Gantos

    Everything changes for Joey when his crazy, long-lost dad returns home after a lucky lottery win. Now they’re rich, Carter Pigza truly believes that his family can start a whole…

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    Joey Pigza Swallowed The Key

    Jack Gantos

    Joey is a good kid, maybe even a great kid, but his teachers never know what he’s going to do next. Told from Joey’s own unique viewpoint by acclaimed American…

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    Rotten Ralph

    Jack Gantos

    30th anniversary, still rotten after all these years –Cover.

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    Guys Read: Heroes & Villains

    Jon Scieszka,Christopher Healy,Sharon Creech,Cathy Camper,Laurie Halse Anderson

    Presents a collection of humorous stories featuring an array of characters… swith and without capes.

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    Here I Stand: Stories that Speak for Freedom

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    A varied and thought-provoking collection of short stories and poems for teens with a conscience, with striking cover illustrations by award-winning children’s laureate Chris Riddell

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    Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories

    Jack Gantos

    The Newbery Award-winning author of Dead End in Norvelt shares advice for how to be the best brilliant writer in this funny and practical creative writing guide perfect for all…

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