Best Selling Books by Jack Gantos

Rotten Ralph the cat''s love of food from trash cans has given him an upset stomach, and it''s up to Sarah to get him to understand his bad eating habits are to blame.

Willy''s Raiders, who always play fair and square, prove the good guys always win when they go up for the championship against the Weasels, who resort to dirty tricks.

Rotten Ralph, the cat, is not at all nice to the Christmas visitor.

It is Valentine''s Day and Rotten Ralph, a very, very nasty cat, is up to his rotten tricks.

Chapter-by-chapter questions will strengthen students'' reading comprehension and assist them in developing critical thinking and emotional development. The vocabulary and word study activities are designed to improve literacy skills.

"Nothing can scare me!" shouts Ralph -- not even a creaky, old haunted house on Halloween. Ralph wanders through the monster mansion and unbolts Frankenstien''s head, grosses out a ghoul, and drinks a vampire''s mug o''blood. But the fright-fest isn''t over just yet... Ralph''s friend Sarah has saved the best spine-tingler for last. Peel back the flaps in this spooktacular gatefold book to see all of Rotten Ralph''s hilarious Halloween tricks!

Santa Claus is coming to town and Rotten Ralph is determined to make a purr-fect impression.

When the carnival comes to town, the world''s favorite fractious feline discovers the hilariously wrong way to victory before he gets it right. "Illustrated with Rubel''s deadpan pictures, this is a prize for newly independent readers, for whom ‘practice makes perfect'' indeed." —The Horn Book Guide "Ralph has his own special niche in the world of children''s literature, and now on the easy-reader shelves, too." —Kirkus Reviews*

Hoping to beat his perfect cousin Percy in the cat show, Ralph allows Sarah to help him spruce up his image and get in shape, but it is only by being himself that victory can be his.

Eté 1962. Jack a douze ans, les grandes vacances commencent et, suite à un malencontreux accident, le garçon est privé de sorties. Le voilà contraint de lire des livres sur les civilisations disparues et de creuser pour son père un abri antiatomique dans le jardin. Il a cependant le droit d''aider une adorable vieille voisine à rédiger pour le journal local la rubrique nécrologique. Les huit dernières habitantes originelles de la ville tombent en effet comme des mouches, à tel point que c''en devient louche... S''ensuivent pour Jack tout un tas de mésaventures hilarantes mettant en scène son père, chasseur et fan d''aviation, une dame d''un certain âge ayant à coeur de transmettre l''histoire méconnue des Etats-Unis, un fossoyeur prêt à enterrer la ville avec ses habitants, et une bande de Hells Angels sanguinaires... Un texte à l''humour formidable, qui parle beaucoup de mort, mais aussi et surtout d''idéal et de transmission !

Ray Jakes croyait bien avoir tout subi en sortant de prison où on l''avait envoyé pour trafic de drogue. Mais quand on a comme compagnon un gros cinglé qui se prend pour Elvis Presley, la liberté peut devenir pire que la détention... Infiniment pire...

When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor.

Collection includes two typescripts and five galley proofs of Jack Gantos''s young adult novel, The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza. All volumes bear editorial emendations and the proofs represent both first and second pass revisions. Also included are assorted notes in the author''s hand and copies of publisher correspondence.

Collection includes two annotated typescripts of Jack Gantos''s short story, "How My Mother Was Arrested for Murder." This story was published inthe Guys Read: Heroes & Villains anthology.

Collection includes two annotated typescripts of Jack Gantos''s unpublished young adult novel, The Missing Half of Joey Pigza (Book Three of The Hidden Files of Joey Pigza). Also included are assorted notes in the author''s hand.

Collection includes four typescripts of Jack Gantos''s young adult novel, A Pain in the Pigza. The typescripts bear handwritten editorial annotations and are dated between 2017 and 2019. Also included are assorted handwritten notes.

A little monster, having disobeyed his mother by eating the watermelon intended for the family''s dessert, suffers for his greed in a subsequent dream.