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y separately published work icon Super Jack single work   children's fiction   children's  
Alternative title: SuperJack
Is part of I Am Jack Susanne Gervay , 2000 series - author children's fiction (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Super Jack
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'Super Jack, like I Am Jack is funny, even hilarious at times. He’s a terrific kid, but he’s got challenges to face like every kid. There’s a new person in Jack’s life– LEO, the son of the sort-of-step-dad Rob. What’s twelve year old Jack supposed to do? His family is just fine with Nanna, Mum, his sister Samantha, Rob and Anna and the Napoli’s nearby. Jack doesn’t want Leo in his bedroom and work-shed. Is Leo taking his place with Jack’s sort-of-step-dad Rob and Mum? What does Rob moving in mean?

'Jack’s Grandad has passed away, but he knows Grandad is watching after them all. And Nanna is always there. She loves bargains and keeps buying cheap purple glow-in-the-dark underpants that no one wants to wear. She’s a bit deaf, her teeth fall out sometimes, but she’s wise and Jack loves her. Nanna’s getting wobblier and can’t live by herself anymore. Jack’s worried about Nanna.

'There’s always things to think about – bush fires and the news. Who would light a fire deliberately? There’s so much happening in the world with war and peace marches. Then there’s the neighbourhood Italian girl Anna. Her parents run the Napoli’s Delicioso Fruitology Market and Anna makes Jack feel red and hot.

'It’s holiday time and they’re all headed up North for a beach holiday – Jack, Mum, Nanna, Samantha, Rob, Ann and Leo – and Jack’s got a lot to work out.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2003 .
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      Extent: 183p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0207199183

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

Challenging Change Katharine England , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 259 2004; (p. 61-62)

— Review of TruckDogs : A Novel in Four Bites Graeme Base , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Super Jack Susanne Gervay , 2003 single work children's fiction ; The Ballad of Cauldron Bay Elizabeth Honey , 2004 single work children's fiction ; The Naming of Tishkin Silk Glenda Millard , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Mudlark Michael Stephens , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled Barbara Dobson , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 47 no. 4 2003; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Super Jack Susanne Gervay , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled Jane Connolly , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 18 no. 5 2003; (p. 34-35)

— Review of Super Jack Susanne Gervay , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled Dianne Dempsey , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 September 2003; (p. 6)

— Review of Super Jack Susanne Gervay , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled Dianne Dempsey , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 September 2003; (p. 6)

— Review of Super Jack Susanne Gervay , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled Jane Connolly , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 18 no. 5 2003; (p. 34-35)

— Review of Super Jack Susanne Gervay , 2003 single work children's fiction
Challenging Change Katharine England , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 259 2004; (p. 61-62)

— Review of TruckDogs : A Novel in Four Bites Graeme Base , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Super Jack Susanne Gervay , 2003 single work children's fiction ; The Ballad of Cauldron Bay Elizabeth Honey , 2004 single work children's fiction ; The Naming of Tishkin Silk Glenda Millard , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Mudlark Michael Stephens , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled Barbara Dobson , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 47 no. 4 2003; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Super Jack Susanne Gervay , 2003 single work children's fiction

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