Jack Gantos

Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue (eBook, ePUB)

A Jack Henry Adventure

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Embark on a hilarious and heartwarming journey with Jack Henry as he navigates the treacherous waters of fourth grade in this side-splitting collection of stories from Newbery Medal-winning author Jack Gantos.

As the Henry family sets sail for a new life on Cape Hatteras, fourth-grader Jack is struggling to chart a course between his parents' contradictory advice on making friends and influencing people. With an airheaded, air-guitar-playing neighbor as his closest companion and a judgmental older sister as his relentless enemy, Jack drifts through a crazy school year, falling desperately in love with his young teacher and getting suckered into becoming a bad-behavior spy for the principal. To top it off, he's forced to make a presentable pet out of a duck with backward feet!

This colorful and comic collection of interrelated stories featuring the author's hapless alter ego is the first of five books in the acclaimed Jack Henry series. Praised by Booklist for its "hilarious, exquisitely painful, and utterly on-target depiction" of a boy's life, Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue is a must-read for anyone who's ever struggled to stay afloat in the choppy seas of growing up. With Common Core connections, this uproarious read is perfect for middle grade readers, fans of funny chapter books, and kids aged 9-12 looking for a relatable hero.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 9 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374706135
• Artikelnr.: 39936674

Autorenporträt

Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults and adults. His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, and Joey Pigza Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book. Jack was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and when he was seven, his family moved to Barbados. He attended British schools, where there was much emphasis on reading and writing, and teachers made learning a lot of fun. When the family moved to south Florida, he found his new classmates uninterested in their studies, and his teachers spent most of their time disciplining students. Jack retreated to an abandoned bookmobile (three flat tires and empty of books) parked out behind the sandy ball field, and read for most of the day. The seeds for Jack's writing career were planted in sixth grade, when he read his sister's diary and decided he could write better than she could. He begged his mother for a diary and began to collect anecdotes he overheard at school, mostly from standing outside the teachers' lounge and listening to their lunchtime conversations. Later, he incorporated many of these anecdotes into stories. While in college, he and an illustrator friend, Nicole Rubel, began working on picture books. After a series of well-deserved rejections, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph, in 1976. It was a success and the beginning of Jack's career as a professional writer. Jack continued to write children's books and began to teach courses in children's book writing and children's literature. He developed the master's degree program in children's book writing at Emerson College and the Vermont College M.F.A. program for children's book writers. He now devotes his time to writing books and educational speaking. He lives with his family in Boston, Massachusetts.