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|aGantos, Jack.
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|aHole in my life |cJack Gantos.
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|aFarrar, Straus and Giroux pbk. ed.
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|aNew York |bFarrar, Straus and Giroux|c2004.
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|a199 p. |c20 cm.
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|aThe author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user andsmuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went tocollege, all the while hoping to become a writer. Becoming a writer the hard way in the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with aton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them.
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|aGantos, Jack.
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|aAuthors, American--20th century--Biography--Young adult literature.
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|aEx-convicts--United States--Biography--Young adult literature.
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|aLexile 840L
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|aALA Best Books for Young Adults
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|aThe Robert F. Sibert 2003
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