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Jack's New Power: Stories from a Caribbean Year

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By Jack Gantos
Publisher Farrar, Straus Giroux - (Farrar, Straus Giroux (BYR))
Jack's New Power: Stories from a Caribbean Year
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Jack Henry, the hero ofHeads or Tails Stories from Sixth Grade, is back. It is the summer after sixth grade and Jack and his offbeat family have relocated to Barbados. But even in a tropical paradise, Jack is plagued by misadventure. He gets a violent case of blood poisoning (after chasing a headless chicken), discovers the perils of male bonding (in a peppereating contest with his father), and has his heartstrings twanged by an older woman (his sisters best friend)to name just a few of his trials and tribulations in these eight fierce and funny stories.

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53876 words53,876 words
224 pages224 pages
Lexile 580LLexile 580L
Grade 5 to 8Grade 5 to 8

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Book ISBN:

9780374336578

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