Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue
Book 1 - Jack Henry

Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue

A Jack Henry Adventure

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Publisher Description

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.

This title has Common Core connections.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2005
August 11
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
2.1
MB
AUDIENCE
Grades 4-8
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The Queen of Everything The Queen of Everything
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7 Clues to Winning You 7 Clues to Winning You
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Seeing Red Seeing Red
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Dead End in Norvelt Dead End in Norvelt
2011
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
2011
Hole in My Life Hole in My Life
2002
Joey Pigza Loses Control Joey Pigza Loses Control
2011
From Norvelt to Nowhere From Norvelt to Nowhere
2013
What Would Joey Do? What Would Joey Do?
2002
Jack on the Tracks Jack on the Tracks
1999
Heads or Tails Heads or Tails
1994
Jack's New Power Jack's New Power
1995
Jack's Black Book Jack's Black Book
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