Hole in My Life.Hole In My Life Jack Gantos Farrar Straus Giroux 19 Union Square West, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10003 0374430896 $8.00 1-888-330-8477 www.fsgbooks.com It'd be a shame to limit this autobiography to the young adult audience it's intended for: author Jack Gantos dreamed of writing from childhood and is a Newbery Honor The Newbery Honor is a citation given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA). The Newbery Honor is given to worthy runners-up for the Newbery Medal, a higher honor. medalist among others--but his road to fame wasn't a smooth one. At age nineteen he became involved with a hashish hashish (hăsh`ēsh, –ĭsh), resin extracted from the flower clusters and top leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, and C. indica. sea voyage--and landed in federal prison, teaching himself to write in a secret diary he kept. HOLE IN MY LIFE is his story of imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. and his hard road to a successful writer's career. |
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