![]() ![]() Jack Gantos did live in Norvelt, Pennsylvania, so he knows of what he writes. This is a hilarious coming of age story based partly on fact and partly contrived of fiction. This is going to be an amazing learning experience for Jack involving the Hell's Angels, Eleanor Roosevelt, a cute girl with a father who runs the local funeral parlor and the possibility that a murderer lurks in their midst. We're now talking Jack grounded for life and sentenced by his parents to two months of helping the neighbor lady type obituaries for the venerable townsfolk who are dropping like flies. He wants to use the cornfield space as a landing strip for his newly purchased and well-hidden vintage airplane. Jack is about to be grounded and he'll be even more grounded when he follows his father's command to use the family tractor to mow down his mother's prized cornfield. ![]() To his shock and the shock of his mother and his own nose which begins to bleed profusely, a bullet flies from the rifle and screams off in the direction of his neighbor's home. He's watching another of his favorite World War II in the Pacific Theater movies and when the Japanese soldiers emerge and begin their attack, Jack hoists an old World War II Army rifle and pulls the trigger with his eye firmly fixed on the attacker on the screen. ![]() ![]() Our main character, Jack Gantos, opens the story wielding a pair of binoculars in the direction of a drive in movie theater. Want a book that zips up and slides down and is constantly shifting with humor, gore and personal growth? Here ya go. ![]()
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