Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade (Jack Henry)

By Jack Gantos

Book Overview

From the Newbery Medal winning author of "Dead End in Norvelt," eight more hysterical semi-autobiographical Jack Henry stories about a sixth grader's trials and tribulations Jack's life is a crazy roller-coaster ride. At his fifth school in six years, he has a crackpot teacher who won't give him a break about his lousy handwriting and a secret crush who wants to be a policewoman. At home, he has a pesky little brother with a knack for getting hurt whenever Jack's supposed to be looking after him, a terror for an older sister, all sorts of weird neighbors, and, last but not least, ferocious alligators in the canal behind his house.Writing in his diary about his good days and bad days is one way Jack survives his up-and-down year. But he's also a kid who knows that life can go any which way at any given moment. He might as well flip a coin: heads he wins, tails he loses. What will turn up next?A Common Core title."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374329095
• ISBN13: 9780374329099
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8

Customer Reviews

great book!

This is a great book for kids my age. It has it all: humor,drama, and adventure. I suggest it! John T.

Heads or Tales Brings You Back

I loved this book and have had lots of fun sharing this book with my 6th grade students. They laugh at all the parts of the story where I think they should or might and then they laugh at me when I'm laughing at the story. I love reading the scene where Jack rides his bike after the mosquito fogger and whipes out.

I recommend this book to anyone. It is very humorous.

Jack Gantos wrote a half fiction and half biography book. It is filled with many small stories , all tying together in some way. grab it while you can.

A great book!

Though not the best I've read, it's not the worst, either. I think it's a great book for ages 7-14. He's really got something here!