num_pages: 140
description: IT WAS THE PERFECT CRIMEUnfortunately, it also led to the perfect punishment. When Jack Rankin gets busted for defacing a school desk with a huge wad of disgusting, watermelon bubble gum, the principal sentences him to three weeks of after-school gum cleanup for the chief custodian. The problem is, Jack's anger at the chief custodian was the reason for his gum project in the first place. The chief custodian happens to be Jack's dad.But doing time in the school basement after hours reveals some pretty surprising about the school, about Jack's father, and about Jack himself.
language: English
title: The Janitor's Boy
titlecomplete: The Janitor's Boy
genres: Chapter Books, Childrens, Juvenile, Humor, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Family, School, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 5727
places: Minnesota
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Children's/Young Adult Literature
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers