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Jack Gantos
Jack Gantos has written novels for adults, young adults, and middle grade readers, as well as over twenty books for primary readers, including twelve titles chronicling the misadventures of Rotten Ralph. He lives in Santa Fe, NM. show more

Jack Gantos has written novels for adults, young adults, and middle grade readers, as well as over twenty books for primary readers, including twelve titles chronicling the misadventures of Rotten Ralph. He lives in Santa Fe, NM.
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Birth date: July 02, 1951
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Children's Books
Jack Gantos's Books
Dead End in Norvelt - Jack Gantos Hole in My Life - Jack Gantos The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs - Jack Gantos Guys Read: Funny Business - Eoin Colfer, Christopher Paul Curtis, Kate DiCamillo, Adam Rex, Jack Gantos, David Lubar, Jon Scieszka, Paul Feig, Jeff Kinney, David Yoo, Mac Barnett Joey Pigza Loses Control - Jack Gantos From Norvelt to Nowhere - Jack Gantos I Am Not Joey Pigza - Jack Gantos What Would Joey Do? - Jack Gantos On the Fringe - Donald R. Gallo, Ron Koertge, Graham Salisbury, Chris Crutcher, Nancy Werlin, Francess Lin Lantz, Angela Johnson, Jack Gantos, M. E. Kerr, Will Weaver, Alden R. Carter Jack's Black Book: What Happens When You Flunk an IQ Test? - Jack Gantos Desire Lines - Jack Gantos Practice Makes Perfect for Rotten Ralph: A Rotten Ralph Rotten Reader - Jack Gantos, Nicole Rubel Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade - Jack Gantos Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue - Jack Gantos Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade - Jack Gantos Rotten Ralph's Show and Tell - Jack Gantos, Nicole Rubel Fair-Weather Friends - Jack Gantos, Nicole Rubel Sleepy Ronald - Jack Gantos, Nicole Rube... Sleepy Ronald - Jack Gantos, Nicole Rubel Rotten Ralph's Rotten Romance - Jack Gantos, Nicole Rubel Worse Than Rotten, Ralph (Rotten Ralph) ... Worse Than Rotten, Ralph (Rotten Ralph) - Jack Gantos, Nicole Rubel
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Here I Stand: Stories that Speak for Freedom - Chris Riddell, Tim Wynne-Jones, Bryan Talbot, Kevin Brooks, X.J. Kennedy, Jack Gantos, Amnesty International, Ryan Gattis, Rikki Kessler, Elizabeth Laird, Bali Rai, Tony Birch, Mary Talbot, Kate Charlesworth, Sita Brahmachari, Christie Watson, Sarah Crossan, Chibundu Onuz
Guys Read: Heroes & Villains - Jon Scieszka, Christopher Healy, Sharon Creech, Cathy Camper, Laurie Halse Anderson, Ingrid Law, Deborah Hopkinson, Pam Munoz Ryan, Eugene Yelchin, Jack Gantos, Lemony Snicket
The Trouble in Me - Jack Gantos
Dead End in Norvelt (Audio) - Jack Gantos, Jack
Dead End in Norvelt - Jack Gantos
Dead End in Norvelt - Jack Gantos
Hole in My Life - Jack Gantos
Guys Read: Funny Business - Eoin Colfer, Christopher Paul Curtis, Kate DiCamillo, Adam Rex, Jack Gantos, David Lubar, Jon Scieszka, Paul Feig, Jeff Kinney, David Yoo, Mac Barnett
Dead End in Norvelt - Jack Gantos
Hole in My Life - Jack Gantos
Jack Gantos's readers
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books Pikeville High School Library MikeDI paigeawesome Read All The Things! Reviews klawrey Entertain Me Books Jenny's Library A Reading Vocation marmalade4evs All About Books janillabean Degrees of Affection Crkrjack77's Book Blog Reading Notes from the Chicken-Hat Philosopher Ma Bell's Books and stuff Psymin's Blog axm097 Bücher, Bücher, 100000 Bücher ABookWorm
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Community Reviews
MikeDI
MikeDI rated it 8 years ago
text Dead End in Norvelt
It was okay.
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Read All The Things! Reviews
Read All The Things! Reviews rated it 8 years ago
text Guys Read: Funny Business
When I was a kid, I was what everybody called a “reluctant reader.” Basically, if you put a book in my hands, I’d do everything in my childish power not to read it. Jon Scieszka’s picture books are some of the first books I remember reading on my own and actually liking. His strange sense of humor w...
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A Reading Vocation
A Reading Vocation rated it 10 years ago
text Book 61/100: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
I think middle-grade historical fiction just isn't really my thing.Although this is well-written and is obviously meant to be humorous, I'm afraid it didn't make me laugh. It felt like it relied a lot on its "voice" and a sense of atmosphere, since anything resembling a plot didn't start to emerge u...
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BagEndBooks
BagEndBooks rated it 10 years ago
text From Norvelt to Nowhere
I was very disappointed by this book. Dead End in Norvelt made me believe that the events in it actually happened, even if they were a bit exaggerated. This book had me doubting every word. Jack had a lot of character growth in the first book, he didn't grow at all in this one. Miss Volker was a lot...
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Kathryn Reads KidLit
Kathryn Reads KidLit rated it 11 years ago
text Joey Pigza Loses Control
We love Joey and enjoy Gantos's reading on the audio version. I feel like I am listening to a kid telling his own experiences, with realistically less-than-perfect family situations. Grades 4+ Listened to June, 2014
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