Jack Gantos
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key and other stories

| Biography and Background | | Hole in my Life | | Joey Pigza books |

Biography and Background

Reading Rockets interviews the author.

Hole in my Life

Scroll down on the page to find a link to the teacher's guide, a 2-page document requiring Adobe Reader for access.

This digital booktalk (2:10) could serve as a prereading activity.

Jack Henry books

This 12-page document includes a variety of cross-curricular activities for these books:

• Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a clue
• Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade
• Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade
• Jack's New Power: Stories from a Caribbean Year
• Jack's Black Book