From the Newbery Medal–winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, nine semi-autobiographical stories that will make you laugh so hard it hurts In Jack on the Trac

There are moose tracks on the back porch . . . in the kitchen . . . in the den . . . There are moose tracks EVERYWHERE! Who left all these moose tracks?

Jack, a railroad switchman, frantically tries to save an ant who is heading east on a westbound track, straight into the path of an oncoming freight train.

When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradict

Comic misadventures ensue when seventh-grader Jack tries to write the great American novel.