The Mostly True Story of Jack
A Fiction, Middle Grade, Mystery book. A person's soul is bigger than his body. It takes root and...
Newbery Medal-winner Kelly Barnhill's debut novel is an eerie tale of magic, friendship, and sacrifice.Enter a world where magic bubbles just below the surface. . . .When Jack is sent to Hazelwood, Iowa, to live with his strange aunt and uncle, he expects a summer of boredom. Little does he know that the people of Hazelwood have been waiting for him for...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780316056724 / 316056723
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There is no utter truth or utter falsehood in this world. There is only mostly. Which part of the mostly you choose to accept, well, that much is up to you. Kelly Barnhill, The Mostly True Story of Jack // A person's soul is bigger than his body. It takes root and lives in all who love him. Kelly Barnhill, The Mostly True Story of Jack //
Looking for something to recommend to my "tween" readers, I grabbed The Mostly True Story of Jack. This was a bit of an "eh" book for me. It was a bit difficult for me to plug through and I found a lot of the parts kind of boring. After feeling invisible for most his life, Jack is sent to spend the summer with an aunt and uncle he doesn't... When Jack's parents split up he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Hazelwood, Iowa. Soon he makes friends (his first ever), gets beaten up by the town bully (usually nobody even notices him), and the mayor wants to kill him. And that isn't all. Jack has a funny feeling that there is magic around Hazelwood. (People disappear,... Jack has always felt invisible, even to his own family. When his parents get divorced and his home life falls apart, he's sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Iowa. But strange things begin to happen--first, he makes real friends, his aunt and uncle remember his name, and he draws the attention of the most powerful man in town who...
