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Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade

Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade

Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction
Published:
1999

Inspired by the author’s childhood diaries, this collection of Jack Henry stories depicts a fifth-grade year to end all fifth-grade years. Living in a Miami rental home with a busy railroad track running a stone’s throw from the backyard, Jack is plagued by a know-it-all older sister, a bizarre Francophile teacher, a series of crazed cats, a slightly off-kilter father, a tapeworm, and a pair of escaped convicts — to name just a few of his antagonists.

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