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Gantos, best known for his award-winning Joey Pigza titles, mines darker material here that is as deeply compelling as his lighter fare. Using short, meaty sentences, Gantos manages to write in a way that dismisses the dubious "romance" of prison, drugs, and "life on the edge" without ever sounding didactic or heavy-handed. Older teens will appreciate his candor and sheer willingness to give them the straight story. Vigorously recommended. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 224 pages. Cover worn.Jack Gantos, bestselling author of the Joey Pigza books, had a peripatetic childhood around the US and t he Caribbean. At 18 years old, he was doing a dead-end job on a C aribbean island, looking for adventure and a way to fund himself through university. When he was offered $10,000 to sail a boatloa d of drugs to New York, he jumped at it. It resulted in a year in a federal prison - and a lot of thinking time. In prison, Jack d iscovered the library where he was able to indulge his passion fo r literature and continue to write the journal he'd started in ch ildhood. Denied a diary of his own by prison regulations, he wrot e his notes in a tiny hand between the lines of a Russian novel. Becoming ever more determined to get to university, Jack discover ed that he didn't have to let one bad choice map out the course o f the rest of his life. There are such things as second chances. Paroled after a year in order to go directly to college to study writing, Jack had his first children's book published within two years of being released. Seller Inventory # 746t