Hole in My Life by Gantos, Jack
Hole in My Life by Gantos, Jack

Hole in My Life

Becoming a writer the hard wayIn the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking...
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Author: Jack Gantos
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Hole in My Life by Gantos, Jack

Hole in My Life

$52.83
Hole in My Life by Gantos, Jack

Hole in My Life

$52.83
Author: Jack Gantos
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Becoming a writer the hard way

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. This title has Common Core connections.

Hole in My Life is a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.



Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 03/26/2002
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780374399887
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 59167 / Hole in My Life


Award: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award - Nominee
Award: Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) - Winner
Award: Michael L. Printz Award - Honor Book
Award: Rhode Island Teen Book Award - Nominee
Award: Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) - Winner
Award: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award - Honor Book
Award: Iowa High School Book Award - Nominee
Award: Tayshas Reading - Commended


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 02/15/2002 pg. 255
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2002 pg. 68
Booklist 04/01/2002 pg. 1336
Booksense '76 Childrens Spr 02 04/01/2002 pg. 1
School Library Journal 05/01/2002 pg. 170
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2002 pg. 345
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2002 pg. 323
New York Times 05/19/2002 pg. 25
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2002 pg. 134
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2002 pg. 466 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2003 pg. 795
ALA Best Books Young Adults 03/15/2003 pg. 1290
ALA Notable Children's Books 03/15/2003 pg. 1309
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2002 pg. 466 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author
Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults and adults. His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors; the Joey Pigza series, which include a Newbery Honor book and a National Book Award Finalist; Dead End in Norvelt, winner of the Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; and the Rotten Ralph series.


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