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

    By Jack Gantos

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    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

    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. Just tell people what they want to hear, Dad advises. Just tell the truth, Mom cautions. Jack finds there are no easy answers as he drifts through his crazy school year, falling desperately in love with his young teacher, getting suckered into becoming a bad-behavior spy for the principal, and being forced to make a presentable pet out of a duck with backward feet. Indeed, with an airheaded, air-guitar-playing neighbor the closest thing to a friend, and a judgmental older sister his relentless enemy, it's all he can do to stay afloat.

    This colorful and comic new collection of interrelated stories featuring the author's hapless alter ego is the first of five books in the Jack Henry series, praised by Booklist for their "hilarious, exquisitely painful, and utterly on-target depiction" of a boy's life.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 11, 2005
    ISBN9780374706135
    Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue: A Jack Henry Adventure
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    Jack Gantos

    Jack Gantos is the celebrated author of Joey Pigza Loses Control, a Newbery Honor Book. He is also the author of the popular picture books about Rotten Ralph, and Jack's Black Book, the latest in his acclaimed series of semi-autobiographical story collections featuring his alter ego, Jack Henry. Mr. Gantos lives with his wife and daughter in Boston, Massachusetts.

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      Sensitive and humorous, Jack tries to sort through life from two different perspectives, one of a father who is well intentioned, but not the best source of reality, and his mother who is more pragmatic and truthful.As usual, Jack finds himself in situations that quickly spiral out of control In fourth grade he falls in love with his teacher, is bullied by the principal and finds friends as quirky as he is.

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