Jack Gantos
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Language
English
Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 1
Language
English
Description
"To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired."--
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
On an unseasonably warm Easter Sunday, a young girl named
Ivy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaugh
pharmacy across the street from the hotel where she lives with
her mother. The discovery reveals a disturbing side to the
eccentric lives of family friends Abner and Adolph Rumbaugh,
known throughout their small western Pennsylvania town
simply as the Twins. It seems that Ab and Dolph have been
compelled by a powerful mutual...
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
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 fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 4
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
“I’m a brand-new man with a brand-new plan.”
Joey Pigza is knocked for a loop when his good-for-nothing dad shows up on his doorstep as a recycled person. After a lucky lotto win, Carter Pigza truly believes he’s somebody else. He’s even renamed himself Charles Heinz–and he insists that Joey and his mother join his happy Heinz family plan.
“My head felt like it was full of bees, and they were busy in...
Joey Pigza is knocked for a loop when his good-for-nothing dad shows up on his doorstep as a recycled person. After a lucky lotto win, Carter Pigza truly believes he’s somebody else. He’s even renamed himself Charles Heinz–and he insists that Joey and his mother join his happy Heinz family plan.
“My head felt like it was full of bees, and they were busy in...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xx, 203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bursting with practical tips and tricks, such as creating actual story-finding maps of your neighborhood, this book will help you build confidence and establish good writing habits as you learn to use a journal to snoop out plots full of action and emotion about yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and your pets. As Jack shows you how to shape your rough ideas, organize plots, and polish drafts to shiny perfection, he also shares...
Author
Series
Jack Henry books volume 5
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
197 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 5
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everything goes topsy-turvy for Joey as he becomes the man of the house, looking after his new baby brother, taking care of his troubled mother, and seeking out his missing father"--
Author
Series
Jack Henry books volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
151 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird
Author
Series
Norvelt books volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws
17) Rotten Ralph
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
[48] p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ralph, a very, very, nasty cat, finally sees the error of his ways--or does he?
Author
Series
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
℗2006
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (47 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm).
Language
English
Description
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 with her class project on ancient Egypt, he wreaks havoc first at the library and then continues his assistance" at home. As usual, Ralph overcomes his rotten-ness and ultimately rescues Sarah's project by dressing up as the Sphinx. Listeners will not only learn interesting tidbits about...