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The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini电子书

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作       者:Johnson, Peter

出  版  社:HarperCollins

出版时间:2012-01-24

字       数:13.7万

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For fans of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee, Gary D. Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, and Jack Gantos's Joey Pigza Books comes a hilarious and poignant slice-of-life novel from critically acclaimed author and poet Peter Johnson.When an author comes to speak to his class in a rundown area of Providence, Houdini decides to make money by writing his own novel. Houdini chronicles his life as he and his friends start a leaf-raking business, befriend Old Man Jackson (a Vietnam War veteran with a seriously intimidating dog), and get even with the neighborhood bully, Angel. But it's hard to find a way to write about his dad losing his job or his brother, Franklin, who is first reported missing in action in Iraq and then still seems to be missing when he comes home.No matter what, Houdini and his friends rely on one another to figure out how to do the right thing. And Houdini discovers that writing and thinking about his friends and family lets him get to know them in completely new ways.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

My Name

Why They Call Me Houdini

Houdini Weenie

No Swearing or Sex

Ten Rules for Writing a Kid’s Novel

My Neighborhood

What’s in a Name?

“My Friends, I Think We Hit the Big Time”

Ten Creatures Mr. Gregory Gregory Could Have Been in a Previous Life

My Family

The Difference Between Crazy and Mean

Every Novel Needs a Villain

“A Bunch of Wizards with Their Butts Stuck in Books”

Old Man Jackson

Gears of War

Ten Things I Miss about Franklin That Are Really One Thing

Being a Writer Ain’t Easy

A Mountain of Leaves

“Take a Hike”

Two Houdinis

Inside Jackson’s House: Part One

Ten Urban Legends about Jackson and Da Nang

“A Lot Can Happen to a Person”

War

In This Corner

The Importance of Brains

Ten Other Quotations from Houdini

The First Annual Leaf-Diving Contest

One Good Reason Not to Invite Angel Dimitri to Leaf-Diving Contest

A Worm of an Idea

Nine Ideas for Revenge on Angel I Didn’t Use, and One Crazy One Offered by Jorge

“Found to Be Missing”

“Get Your Behind in Here, Boy”

Inside Jackson’s House: Part Two

RIP

Ten Things You Can Do to Calm Down Your Father When He Loses It, with Thanks to the Thesaurus

Family Reunion at the Police Station

A Whole New Enemy

No Explanations

The Worm Crawls Out of Its Hole

Ten Things That Make You Hip in My Neighborhood

The Storm

“Can We Take a Hand Vote on That?”

Barber School

Old Man’s Jackson’s House Yet Again

Ten Ways to Describe Angel’s Shaved Head

“Very Creepy”

The Zoo

“Don’t Tell Me about Fair”

The Stupid Law

One Big Happy Family

Ten Other Guesses about What Happened to Angel at Old Man Jackson’s

“Take a Pill or Something”

John Smith and Sons

“Just Let It End, Dude”

Books John Smith, Jr., aka Houdini, Might Have Read

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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