Synopsis A collection of interlinked stories about junior high school student Jack Henry. In diary entries, Jack writes about such experiences as being humiliated by a gorgeous synchronized swimmer, getting a tattoo on his big toe, and his horrible woodworking class, as well as his burning desire to become an author.
Comic misadventures ensue when seventh-grader Jack tries to write the great American novel.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1999-09-10 | | Series: | Jack Henry |
| Size | | Length: | 165 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Publisher's Note The adventures of thirteen-year-old Jack Henry continue, in a tale that captures with authenticity the embarrassing, humorous and at times gross life of a typical adolescent boy. Reprint. NY Public Library Book for the Teen Age.
Industry Reviews "Gantos is comfortable with the serious pain in the rejections, harbingers of failure, and cruelties, so that the humor is part guffaw, part sympathy, and part there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - Deborah Stevenson (12/19/1997)
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