Jack's New Power: Stories from a Caribbean Year

Jack Gantos

Macmillan, Sep 30, 1997 - Juvenile Fiction - 214 pages

From the Newbery Medal–winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, life for Jack Henry in a brand-new place is filled with the same old craziness



Jack Henry has moved to the island of Barbados with his offbeat family and his secret diary. But still he can't escape his penchant for wacky misadventure. Because of a headless chicken, he gets a violent case of blood poisoning. In a pepper-eating contest with his father, he discovers the perils of male bonding. And then he has his heartstrings twanged by an older woman who just happens to be his sister's best friend.

These are just a few of his trials and tribulations in these eight fierce and funny stories, based on the author's own childhood diaries.

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Contents

• Contents: 3
• Purple: 33
• Love: 63
• New Power: 83
• The Pistol: 117
• Thurston Branch: 139
• Mans Man: 171
• Fire: 195

About the author

Jack Gantos was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania on July 2, 1951. He received a BFA and a MA from Emerson College. While in college, he and an illustrator friend, Nicole Rubel, began working on picture books. After a series of rejections, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph, in 1976. His other books include Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, Joey Pigza Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book, and Dead End in Norvelt, which won the 2012 Newbery Medal. His memoir, Hole in My Life, won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors. Jack's follow-up to Hole in My Life is The Trouble in Me He also teaches courses in children's book writing and children's literature. He dev.eloped the master's degree program in children's book writing at Emerson College and the Vermont College M.F.A. program for children's book writers.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Jack's New Power: Stories from a Caribbean Year; Volume 4 of Jack Henry adventure; Volume 4 of Jack Henry
• Author: Jack Gantos
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1997
• ISBN: 0374437157, 9780374437152
• Length: 214 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Juvenile Fiction / Family / General; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Caribbean & Latin America; Juvenile Fiction / Science & Nature / General; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age