Copyright © 1997 by Jack Gantos
All rights reserved
Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group
Printed in the United States of America
First edition, 1997
Sunburst edition, 1999
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gantos, Jack.
      Jack’s black book/Jack Gantos. — 1st ed.
          p. cm.
      Summary: Comic misadventures ensue when seventh-grader Jack tries to write the great American novel.
      ISBN-13: 978-0-374-43716-9 (pbk.)
      ISBN-10: 0-374-43716-5 (pbk.)
      [1. Authorship—Fiction. 2. Humorous stories.] I. Title.

  PZ7.G15334Jab 1997
  [Fic]—dc21

96-53107