Jack Gantos

Book, Audio Book on CD, eAudiobook

Series

Norvelt books volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12

Formats

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.

2) Joey Pigza swallowed the key

Author

Series

Joey Pigza books volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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.

3) Hole in my life

Author

Pub. Date

2007

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7

Description

The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer. Becoming a writer the hard way in the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded...

4) Jack on the tracks: four seasons of fifth grade

Author

Series

Jack Henry books volume 4

Pub. Date

c1999

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6

Description

Moving with his unbearable sister to Miami, Florida, Jack tries to break some of his bad habits but finds himself irresistibly drawn to things disgusting, gross, and weird.

5) Rotten Ralph helps out

Author

Rotten Ralph Rotten readers
My readers. Level 1

Series

Pub. Date

c2001

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

540L

Description

Sarah's cat Rotten Ralph tries to help her create a school project based on ancient Egypt, but he is more of a hindrance than a help.

6) From Norvelt to nowhere

Author

Series

Norvelt books volume 2

Pub. Date

2013

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10

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.

7) The love curse of the Rumbaughs

Author

Audio Book on CD, eAudiobook

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7

Formats

Description

A young woman named Ivy, who made a shocking discovery in her small western Pennsylvania town when she was seven years old and learned a surprising secret nine years later, questions whether she has inherited the Rumbaugh curse of having excessive love for one's mother. 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...

8) Writing radar: using your journal to snoop out and craft great stories

Author

Pub. Date

2017.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5

Description

Teach young writers on using their "writing radar" to unearth story ideas from their everyday lives.

9) What would Joey do?

Author

Series

Joey Pigza books volume 3

Pub. Date

2002

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8

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.

10) The nine lives of Rotten Ralph

Author

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

When the veterinarian determines that Sarah's cat has used up eight of his nine lives, will the high-spirited feline finally stop misbehaving?

11) Practice makes perfect for Rotten Ralph

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2002]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Fountas & Pinnell

Description

When he goes to a carnival with Sarah and his cousin Percy, Rotten Ralph learns that winning is not everything.

12) Best in show for Rotten Ralph

Author

Series

Pub. Date

c2005

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Description

Hoping to beat his cousin Percy in the cat show, Ralph allows Sarah to help him spruce up his image and get in shape.

13) Not so Rotten Ralph

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2000

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Description

Sarah's mischievous cat, Rotten Ralph, is sent to feline finishing school, but Sarah finds she liked him better the way he was.

14) Rotten Ralph feels rotten

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2004]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1

Fountas & Pinnell

Description

Rotten Ralph comes to appreciate Sarah's healthy cat food after he gets sick from eating out of trash cans.

15) Joey Pigza loses control

Author

Series

Joey Pigza books volume 2

Pub. Date

2006

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7

Lexile measure

800L

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.

16) Rotten Ralph Helps Out / Practice Makes Perfect for Rotten Ralph

Author

Series

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. In Practice makes Perfect for Rotten Ralph, when the

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17) The Bloody Souvenir

Author

Guys Read Funny Business
Guys Read Library of Great Reading

Series

Pub. Date

2010

Description

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for kids is concerned. Each book is a collection of original short stories, but these aren't your typical anthologies—each

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18) Rotten Ralph's rotten family

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2014.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1

Description

"Ralph takes a swing through his family tree to find out why he's so rotten"--

19) Three strikes for Rotten Ralph

Author

Rotten Ralph Rotten readers
A Rotten Ralph rotten reader

Series

Pub. Date

[2011]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Fountas & Pinnell

Description

When Rotten Ralph, the cat, fails to win a spot on a baseball team with his friend Sarah, he becomes the "cat boy" instead, still dreaming of proving himself the superstar he imagines himself to be.

20) Worse Than Rotten, Ralph

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1982

Description