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  • Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

    (National Book Award Finalist)

    by Jack Gantos ...
    Series Book 1 - Joey Pigza
    "They say I'm wired bad, or wired sad, but there's no doubt about it -- I'm wired."Joey Pigza's got heart, he's got a mom who loves him, and he's got "dud meds," which is what he calls the Ritalin pills that are supposed to even out his wild mood swings. Sometimes Joey makes bad choices. He learns the hard way that he shouldn't stick his finger in the pencil sharpener, or swallow his house key, or ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Dead End in Norvelt

    (Newbery Medal Winner)

    by Jack Gantos ...
    Narrated by Jack Gantos ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Norvelt Series

    Unabridged

    7 hours 13 min

    Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the Newbery Medal for best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Hole in My Life

    by Jack Gantos ...
    From aspiring writer to convicted drug smuggler: a young man's journey of self-discovery behind bars.In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

    by Jack Gantos ...
    Narrated by Jack Gantos ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 58 min

    Joey Pigza can't sit still. He can't pay attention, he can't follow the rules, and he can't help it–especially when his meds aren't working. Joey's had problems ever since he was born, problems just like his dad and grandma have. And whether he's wreaking havoc on a class trip or swallowing his house key, Joey's problems are getting worse. In fact, his behavior is so off the wall that his teachers ... Read more

    $13.50 USD

  • From Norvelt to Nowhere

    by Jack Gantos ...
    Series Book 2 - Norvelt Series
    This rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal–winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens deep in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania. After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the town's founder, twelve-year-old ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Guys Read: The Bloody Souvenir

    A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business

    by Jack Gantos, Jon Scieszka ...
    Illustrated by Adam Rex ...
    Series series Guys Read
    Jack isn’t like the Pagoda brothers. He knows the difference between fun and stupid. Launching yourself across the backyard in a makeshift Roman catapult? Fun. Smoking an entire pack of cigarettes as fast as possible? Stupid. But when it comes to emergency self-surgery…Jack still has something to learn. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Dead End in Norvelt

    (Newbery Medal Winner)

    by Jack Gantos ...
    Series Book 1 - Norvelt Series
    Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the Newbery Medal for best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jack on the Tracks

    Four Seasons of Fifth Grade

    by Jack Gantos ...
    Series Book 2 - Jack Henry
    From the Newbery Medal–winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, nine semi-autobiographical stories that will make you laugh so hard it hurtsIn Jack on the Tracks, fifth-grader Jack Henry is hoping for fresh adventure when he moves to a new home in Miami with his family, but he can't escape his old worrying ways. He worries about being fascinated with all things gross and disgusting. He worries about ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Jack's New Power

    Stories from a Caribbean Year

    by Jack Gantos ...
    Series Book 4 - Jack Henry
    Jack Henry has moved to the island of Barbados with his offbeat family and his secret diary. But still he can't escape his penchant for wacky misadventure. Because of a headless chicken, he gets a violent case of blood poisoning. In a pepper-eating contest with his father, he discovers the perils of male bonding. And then he has his heartstrings twanged by an older woman who just happens to be his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Trouble in Me

    by Jack Gantos ...
    Narrated by Jack Gantos ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 54 min

    This fiery autobiographical novel captures a pivotal week or two in the life of fourteen-year-old Jack Gantos, as the author reveals the moment he began to slide off track as a kid who in just a few years would find himself locked up in a federal penitentiary for the crimes portrayed in the memoir Hole in My Life. Set in the Fort Lauderdale neighborhood of his family's latest rental home, The ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    From Norvelt to Nowhere

    by Jack Gantos ...
    Narrated by Jack Gantos ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Norvelt Series

    Unabridged

    6 hours 9 min

    Jack Gantos' rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal–winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens in the 1960s, deep in the shadow of the Cold War and the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania. After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs

    by Jack Gantos ...
    On an unseasonably warm Easter Sunday, a young girl namedIvy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaughpharmacy across the street from the hotel where she lives withher mother. The discovery reveals a disturbing side to theeccentric lives of family friends Abner and Adolph Rumbaugh,known throughout their small western Pennsylvania townsimply as the Twins. It seems that Ab and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook