Gantos, Jack
Summary: "Ralph takes a swing through his family tree to find out why he's so rotten"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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Summary: To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
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Summary: Rotten Ralph, the cat, is not at all nice to the Christmas visitor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1984
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Summary: In his family's new rental home on a down-at-the heels street in sun-beaten Miami -- with dog-eating alligators in the canal out back, a dangerously attractive girl across the road, and the unhinged Pagoda family next door -- fourteen-year-old Jack is adrift, losing a sense of who he is and what he's all about. Which is why he ends up trying to morph himself into someone he's not, that someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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Summary: Rotten Ralph comes to appreciate Sarah's healthy cat food after he gets sick from eating out of trash cans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2004
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2011
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2011
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002
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Summary: When the veterinarian determines that Sarah's cat has used up eight of his nine lives, will the high-spirited feline finally stop misbehaving?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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Summary: Pursued by the authorities, Jack and Miss Volker take to the road in this madcap follow-up to the Newbery Medal winner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GANGantos, Jack.
Summary: It is Valentine's Day and Rotten Ralph, a very, very nasty cat, is up to his rotten tricks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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Summary: It is Valentine's Day and Rotten Ralph, a very, very nasty cat, is up to his rotten tricks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE GANEager, Edward.
Summary: Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004