Gantos, Jack

Joey Pigza loses control by Jack Gantos ( Book )
39 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 3,674 libraries worldwide
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.

Joey Pigza swallowed the key by Jack Gantos ( Book )
45 editions published between 1998 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 3,083 libraries worldwide
To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.

Hole in my life by Jack Gantos ( Book )
45 editions published between 2002 and 2008 in English and Persian and held by 2,547 libraries worldwide
From the Publisher: In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison. But running just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos-once he was locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell-moved from wanting to be a writer to writing, and how dedicating himself more fully to the thing he most wanted to do helped him endure and ultimately overcome the worst experience of his life.

What would Joey do by Jack Gantos ( Book )
29 editions published between 2002 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,352 libraries worldwide
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.

Rotten Ralph by Jack Gantos ( Book )
20 editions published between 1976 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,846 libraries worldwide
Ralph, a very, very, nasty cat, finally sees the error of his ways--or does he?

I am not Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos ( Book )
12 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 1,778 libraries worldwide
Joey's father returns, calling himself Charles Heinz and apologizing for his past bad behavior, and he swears that once Joey and his mother change their names and help him fix up the old diner he has bought, their lives will change for the better.

Heads or tails : stories from the sixth grade by Jack Gantos ( Book )
7 editions published between 1994 and 1999 in English and held by 1,262 libraries worldwide
Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird.

Rotten Ralph helps out by Jack Gantos ( Book )
10 editions published between 2001 and 2006 in English and held by 1,235 libraries worldwide
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.

Rotten Ralph's rotten Christmas by Jack Gantos ( Book )
1 edition published in 1984 in English and held by 1,231 libraries worldwide
Rotten Ralph, the cat, is not at all nice to the Christmas visitor.

Rotten Ralph's trick or treat by Jack Gantos ( Book )
6 editions published between 1986 and 2004 in English and held by 1,186 libraries worldwide
Sarah's rotten cat Ralph goes to a Halloween costume party dressed as her and creates horrible mischief under the protection of his disguise.