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Jack Gantos, bestselling author of the Joey Pigza books, had a peripatetic childhood around the US and the Caribbean. At 18 years old, he was doing a dead-end job on a Caribbean island, looking for adventure and a way to fund himself through university. When he was offered $10,000 to sail a boatload of drugs to New York, he jumped at it. It resulted in a year in a federal prison - and a lot of thinking time. In prison, Jack discovered the library where he was able to indulge his passion for literature and continue to write the journal he'd started in childhood. Denied a diary of his own by prison regulations, he wrote his notes in a tiny hand between the lines of a Russian novel. Becoming ever more determined to get to university, Jack discovered that he didn't have to let one bad choice map out the course of the rest of his life. There are such things as second chances. Paroled after a year in order to go directly to college to study writing, Jack had his first children's book published within two years of being released.
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All I heard was the number - ten thousand dollars, cash.'
At eighteen, Jack was doing a dead-end job on a Caribbean island, looking for adventure and a way to fund himself through university. He knew he wanted to be a writer, but how was he going to pay the bills? When he was offered $10,000 to sail a yacht loaded with hidden drugs to New York, he thought he's got it made. What he got instead was a jail sentence - and a lot of thinking time. Becoming even more determined to get to college, Jack realized that he didn't have to let one terrible decision map out the course of the rest of his life. There are such things as second chances. You just have to know how to take them...
'Riveting' Publishers Weekly
'Brilliant and breathtaking'. Booklist
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Jack Gantos, bestselling author of the Joey Pigza books, had a peripatetic childhood around the US and the Caribbean. At 18 years old, he was doing a dead-end job on a Caribbean island, looking for adventure and a way to fund himself through university. When he was offered $10,000 to sail a boatload of drugs to New York, he jumped at it. It resulted in a year in a federal prison - and a lot of thinking time. In prison, Jack discovered the library where he was able to indulge his passion for literature and continue to write the journal he'd started in childhood. Denied a diary of his own by prison regulations, he wrote his notes in a tiny hand between the lines of a Russian novel. Becoming ever more determined to get to university, Jack discovered that he didn't have to let one bad choice map out the course of the rest of his life. There are such things as second chances. Paroled after a year in order to go directly to college to study writing, Jack had his first children's book published within two years of being released.
From the Back Cover
All I heard was the number - ten thousand dollars, cash.'
At eighteen, Jack was doing a dead-end job on a Caribbean island, looking for adventure and a way to fund himself through university. He knew he wanted to be a writer, but how was he going to pay the bills? When he was offered $10,000 to sail a yacht loaded with hidden drugs to New York, he thought he's got it made. What he got instead was a jail sentence - and a lot of thinking time. Becoming even more determined to get to college, Jack realized that he didn't have to let one terrible decision map out the course of the rest of his life. There are such things as second chances. You just have to know how to take them...
'Riveting' Publishers Weekly
'Brilliant and breathtaking'. Booklist
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