Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
by Jack Gantos"They say I'm wired bad, or wired sad, but there's no doubt about it -- I'm wired.
"Joey Pigza's got heart, he's got a mom who loves him, and he's got "dud meds," which is what he calls the Ritalin pills that are supposed to even out his.
- First published
- 2011
- Publishers
- Farrar· Straus & Giroux
- Subjects
- Children's fiction·Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder·Fiction·Schools·Fiction·Single-parent families·Fiction
About Jack Gantos
Jack Gantos is an American author of children's books renowned for his portrayal of fictional Joey Pigza, a boy with ADHD, and many other well known characters such as Rotten Ralph, Jack Henry, Jack Gantos (memoirs) and others. Gantos has won a number of awards, including the Newbery, the Newbery Honor, the Scott O'Dell Award, the Printz Honor, and the Sibert Honor from the American Library Association, and he has been a finalist for the National Book Award.Gantos was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania to son of construction superintendent John Gantos and banker Elizabeth (Weaver) Gantos. The seeds for Jack Gantos' writing career were planted in sixth grade, when he read his sister's diary and decided he could write better than she could. Born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and raised in Barbados and South Florida, Mr. Gantos began collecting anecdotes in grade school and later gathered them into stories.After his senior year in high school (where he lived in a welfare motel) he moved to a Caribbean island (St Croix) and began to train as a builder. He soon realized that construction was not his forté and started saving for college. While in St. Croix he met a drug smuggler and was offered a chance to make 10 000 dollars by sailing to New York with 2,000 pounds of hash. With an English eccentric captain on board they set off to the big city. Once there they hung out at the Chelsea hotel and Gantos carried on dreaming about college. Then, in Jacks own words, "The **** hit the fan" and the F.B.I. burst in on him. He managed to escape and hid out in the very same welfare motel he was living during high school. However, he saw sense and turned himself in. He was sentenced to six years in prison, which he describes in his novel -HOLE IN MY LIFE-. However, after a year and a half in prison he applied to college, was accepted. He was released from prison, entered college, and soon began his writing career. He received his BFA and his MA both from Emerson College. While in college, Jack began working on picture books with an illustrator friend. In 1976, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph. Mr. Gantos continued writing children's books and began teaching courses in children's book writing. He developed the master's degree program in children's book writing at Emerson College in Boston. In 1995 he resigned his tenured position in order to further his writing career (which turned out to be a great decision). He married art dealer Anne A. Lower on November 11, 1989. The couple has one child, Mabel, and they live in Boston, Massachusetts.www.jackgantos.com...
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Happy Rain
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A loving collaboration between maurice sendak, the caldecott medal-winning author and illustrator of where the wild things are, and his brother, jack sendak, now back in print!
Whistle for Willie
Ezra Jack Keats
This is the simple story of peter, who longs to whistle for his dog, willie, and persists until he does.
Project Management Solutions
Jack J. Phillips
Project management tools, training, software, personnel, and time represent large financial investments for many organizations.
Jack and Jack
Jack & Jack
Psychopharmacology
Jack D. Barchas
Soccer at War 1939-45
Jack Rollin
Understanding Websphere
Jack Martin
A general survey of the entire websphere product line, providing information that should allow readers to understand which websphere product will solve their business problem.
Detective Story
Jack Kelly
Levin
Jack A. Levin
Levin
Jack A. Levin
Good Old Days Were Great Word Search
Jack Kalin
Photography and the Law
Jack Siegel
E-Book Plunkett's Retail Industry Almanac 2023
Jack W. Plunkett
Wireless Network Security
Jack L. Burbank
Wireless Network Security
Jack L. Burbank
Plunkett's Advertising & Branding Industry Almanac 2023
Jack W. Plunkett
Plunkett's Real Estate & Construction Industry Almanac 2023
Jack W. Plunkett
Plunkett's Investment & Securities Industry Almanac 2023
Jack W. Plunkett
Workers Party
Jack Stuart
E-Book Plunkett's Engineering & Research Industry Almanac 2023
Jack W. Plunkett
Judgment
Jack LaFountain
Plunkett's Computers, Hardware & Software Industry Almanac 2023
Jack W. Plunkett
Tropical Peatlands
Jack Rieley
Tropical peatlands are found mostly in south east asia, but also in africa and in central and south america.
Judgment
Jack LaFountain
E-Book Plunkett's Food Industry Almanac 2023
Jack W. Plunkett
Plunkett's Companion to the Almanac of American Employers 2023
Jack W. Plunkett
E-Book Plunkett's Consulting Industry Almanac 2023
Jack W. Plunkett
Drug Synthesis Today
Jie Jack Li
The Federation
Jack Brown
Nick Drake
Richard Morton Jack
Beast and the Bethany
Jack Meggitt-Phillips
More Parties or No Parties
Jack Santucci
Local Government Reform in England
Jack Brand
Little Lady of the Big House Illustrated
Jack London
Medical Regulatory Affairs
Jack Wong
Poetics of Cruising
Jack Parlett
Lost Face
Jack London
Tales of the Fish Patrol(Annotated Edition)
Jack London
Valley of the Moon Original (Annotated)
Jack London
Dangers of Automation in Airliners
Jack J. Hersch
People of the Abyss
Jack London
Burning Daylight
Jack London
Lost Gratitude
Jack Holder
Jack Grealish Calendar 2022
jack Grealish Calendar
RJ, Farrah and Me
Jack Hilovsky
Europe on the Path to Self-Destruction
Jack L. Schwartzwald
Love of Life and Other Stories Illustrated
Jack London
Tales of the Fish Patrol Illustrated
Jack London
Plunkett's Chemicals, Coatings & Plastics Industry Almanac 2023
Jack W. Plunkett
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