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Jack: Secret Histories (Repairman Jack Novels) | 
 enlarge | Author: F. Paul Wilson
Publisher: Tor Teen
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 6554
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0765318547
EAN: 9780765318541
ASIN: 0765318547
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
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Product Description
Ever come across a situation that simply wasn’t right—where someone was getting the dirty end of the stick and you wished you could make things right but didn’t know how? Fourteen-year-old Jack knows how. Or rather he’s learning how. He’s discovering that he has a knack for fixing things. Not bikes or toys or appliances—situations…. It all starts when Jack and his best friends, Weezy and Eddie, discover a rotting corpse—the victim of ritual murder—in the fabled New Jersey Pine Barrens. Beside the body is an ancient artifact carved with strange designs. What is its secret? What is the secret of the corpse? What other mysteries hide in the dark, timeless Pine Barrens? And who doesn’t want them revealed? Jack’s town, the surrounding Barrens, his friends, even Jack himself…they all have…Secret Histories.
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 Pretty good and kept me interested July 2, 2008
Secret histories basically lays some background for what I believe will come in the next installments of Repairman Jack. I thought you might get a little more background on his parents and the events that led him to be what he is. He of course he has his adventure and there are the usual references to a woman with a dog and so forth. This being a young adult novel, it didn't get too deep or violent, but was a decent holdover until the next 'real' installment comes out.
repairman jack,the early years June 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
very informative novel.expands on the legend while a teen.the author seems to be interested in cornering the youth market and with his expertise in character development it won"t be a problem.
 Great Backstory! June 24, 2008
As a longtime fan of the Repairman Jack novels, I really enjoyed this foray into Jack's roots. It is a good story regardless of if you have read previous "Jack" novels or not, but I think that I would suggest to someone who has not read any of them yet that they read at least one of the ones featuring Jack as an adult before reading this one simply because it was interesting to find the correlations between the man Jack becomes and the boy he was, and how his job at the used goods store and his first encounters with the lady and the dog tie into later events. I do hope that Mr. Wilson will continue weaving tales about Jack, both as an adult and as a boy.
secret histories June 23, 2008
this would be a great start for teens to prepare them for the jack and adversary series of books.
Early Repairman Jack June 23, 2008
I've read all the Repairman Jack books and really like F. Paul Wilson. It was fun to see the beginning of Jack's fix-its. F. Paul captures the feeling of the early teen years. As always, waiting for the continuation.
Repairman Jack is an exceptional character. You come to feel as if you really know him and the people he surrounds himself with.
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