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When the carnival comes to town, the world's favorite fractious feline discovers the hilariously wrong way to victory before he gets it right. Full color.

In the summer of 1971, Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For $10, 000, he recklessly agreed to help sail a 60-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them.

Joey's dad is well and truly wired! If people think Joey has problems, they should meet his dad!Joey's dad insists he can cope without medication and that Joey can too. Joey so wants to believe his dad is right - but Joey remembers just how manic he felt before he got help. Can Joey live life his dad's way - or will the chaos take over?

The fifth and final book in the groundbreaking Joey Pigza series by Newbery Medalist Gantos ("Dead End in Norvelt") brings the beloved chronicle of this troubled every-boy to a crescendo of chaos and craziness, as everything goes topsy-turvy for Joey just as he starts to get his feet on the ground.

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In a prequel to "Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade", Jack moves with his unbearable sister to Miami, Florida, and tries to break some of his bad habits but finds himself irresistibly drawn to things disgusting, gross and weird.

He's really at sea this time 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...

Just when Joey Pigza's wired world finally seems to be under control, his good-for-nothing dad pops back into his life. This time, though, Carter Pigza is a new man - literally. After a lucky lotto win, Carter Pigza has a crazy new outlook on life, and he's even changed his name to Charles Heinz. He thinks Joey and his mom should become new people, too. Soon Joey finds himself bombarded with changes: a new name, a new home, and a new family bu...

When 16-year-old Walker gets caught up in a witch-hunt against homosexuals, he is left to stand by and watch as a tragedy unfolds.

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.

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 mutua...

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When the carnival comes to town, the world's favorite fractious feline discovers the hilariously wrong way to victory before he gets it right. Full color.

Newbery Award-winning author Jack Gantos shares advice for how to be the best brilliant writer in this funny and practical writing guide perfect for all kids who dream of seeing their name on the spine of a book.With the signature wit and humor that have garnered him legions of fans, Gantos instructs young writers on using their "writing radar" to find story ideas in their own lives. Incorporating his own misadventures as a developing writer, ...

On the Flying Squirrels baseball team, feisty feline Rotten Ralph dreams of becoming a superstar but ignores Sarah's example of working hard to learn the fundamentals. Full color.

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Author Jack Gantos ("Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key") shares the true story of how he became a writer the hard way by learning a valuable lesson while he was in college.

Now in paperback. Sarah's cat, Rotten Ralph, tries to lend a hand when Sarah must create a school project on ancient Egypt. But, as usual, Ralph is more of a hindrance than a help. Full color.

Rotten Ralph makes an earnest attempt at good behavior but is enticed, not too reluctantly, into a series of misadventures by some ruffian alley cats.

Ralph, a very, very nasty cat, finally sees the error of his ways -- or does he?