After last week's disappointing field trip through the stacks, I am happy to report that I got the real deal at the my latest trip to the public library:
Tada!
I adore Jack Gantos. His Jack books are great. His Joey books are great.* And Hole in My Life is the sin qua non of sin qua noniness.
I can't wait to read Dead End.** It's just that...reading Jack Gantos puts me in the strangest moods....
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*The series just goes on about two books too long. You know this. I know this. I suspect Jack Gantos knows this. Apparently it is very hard work to resist the siren call of writing a runner-up to one's award-winning Newberino book. Just ask Louis Sachar, Jennifer Holm, Ingrid Law, Susan Patron...why, even our personal favorite for this year's Newbery sticker, Rebecca's dad couldn't resist.
**Which has yet another example of separated-at-birth covers so beloved by nervous publishing companies:
