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Monday, April 7 • 7 p.m. First Congregational Church After his talk, Mr. Gantos will autograph his books, which will also be available for purchase. |
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Tickets: $10 Adults • $5 Students (K-12) Tickets are on sale March 3 - April 6 at Central Library, the library administration building, Capitol Hill Library, Gresham Library, Hollywood Library and Midland Library. Tickets are also available at A Children's Place, Annie Bloom's Books, Looking Glass Book Store, Twenty-Third Avenue Books and Jackson's Books in Salem. To order tickets by mail or for more information, call 503.988.5402. |
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READ ABOUT GANTOS 
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Mr. Gantos received his first diary in the second grade. His mother had given his older sister a diary, and because he wanted to do whatever his big sister did, he "howled and sobbed" until he received a journal of his own. At first, he recorded the date and the weather and described his meals. When a family move prompted him to start storing his collections in his diaries, he began to write about his stamps, photographs, baseball cards, bugs, bottle caps and pennies.
Mr. Gantos has written more than 30 books for children and adults. Two award committees affiliated with the American Library Association, the Michael L. Printz (young adult) and the Robert F. Sibert (nonfiction), have recently named Gantos' memoir of a turbulent late adolescence and early adulthood, Hole in My Life, a 2003 Honor Book. Joey Pigza Loses Control is a 2001 Newbery Honor Book and Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key is a National Book Award Finalist. Mr. Gantos' other honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Mr. Gantos lives with his wife and daughter in Boston, Massachusetts. He devotes his time to writing books and educational speaking. |
Jack Gantos is an award-winning, productive and zany author. He writes funny stories that cause readers to laugh out loud, and then sigh at the sweetness that strengthens his honest humor.
Born in 1951, in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, Mr. Gantos "moved about 40 times growing up" and attended "10 different schools" as a child. He faithfully recorded his adventures in his journals. These childhood entries have served as the inspiration for his many picture books and novels.
He read his sister's diary in the sixth grade and determined that he could write better than she could. This planted the seeds for his future career. In high school, he knew he would become an author and by college he was sending books to publishers.|
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BookWeb features a writing-focused interview with Jack Gantos. For more from Mr. Gantos, read this lively interview from Achuka (Children's Books UK). For another biography of Jack Gantos, see publisher McGraw-Hill's "author of the month" site.
Jack Gantos visits many schools. Read about his visits to a middle school in Virginia, a school in Texas, and a school in Massachusetts. |
Multnomah County librarians have created book discussion guides for
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