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Title:

Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue
 

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Genres:

Juvenile

Series:

Jack Henry

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 2003-00-00 Farrar, Straus and Giroux  

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Blurb: 
He's really at sea this time

As the Henry family sets sail for a new life on Cape Hatteras, fourth-grader Jack is struggling to chart a course between his parents??? contradictory advice on making friends and influencing people. Just tell people what they want to hear, Dad advises. Just tell the truth, Mom cautions. Jack finds there are no easy answers as he drifts through his crazy school year, falling desperately in love with his young teacher, getting suckered into becoming a bad-behavior spy for the principal, and being forced to make a presentable pet out of a duck with backward feet. Indeed, with an airheaded, air-guitar-playing neighbor the closest thing to a friend, and a judgmental older sister his relentless enemy, it???s all he can do to stay afloat.