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197 pp.
| Farrar |
August, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-374-39987-5$$16.00
(2)
4-6
In this prequel to the four books about Jack Henry and his tragicomic, itinerant family, young Jack's honest, dryly humorous first-person narration chronicles his fourth-grade year. The novel opens with the family's move from Pennsylvania to North Carolina and with Jack's worries about making friends. Jack's weird predicaments are both familiar and fantastic; laugh-out-loud scenes have a tendency to sneak up on you.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2003