Jack Plank tells tales
By: Natalie Babbitt
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Michael Di Capua Books/Scholastic
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780545004961
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Pirates; Storytelling; Fiction
Description: Jack Plank started out to be a pirate. His shipmates all liked him, and their ship, the Avarice, was certainly very beautiful. But after a while it was clear that he wasn't much good at plundering. He just didn't have the knack for it. So what to do? Jack did the only thing he could do-- he went ashore to look for another line of work. The town was called Saltwash, and he had a lot of helpful advice from the people in Mrs. DelFresno's boardinghouse. Somehow, though, each career he looked into seemed  to have something wrong with it. And every night at dinner in the boardinghouse, he tried to explain why. For who would want to work where there might be a troll, or the danger of getting a crab caught in your beard? Or what about a music-loving crocodile? There were other things, too, that ran against every suggestion and took the wind out of his sails.
Notes: Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.1 3