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    <body><![CDATA[Jack Plank is not a very good pirate, and so he gives up his profession and settles in a boardinghouse in the little fishing village of Saltwash.  During his stay, he tries to find other suitable work for himself.  Every position that is considered leads Jack into a tale that explains why this profe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66497400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh poor ole Jack Plank...he wanted so much to stay aboard <em>The Avarice</em> with his plundering,salty pirate buddies. But, alas, he did not have what it takes, and so, with a heavy heart he left the sea to live his life on land. He stumbled onto the town of Saltwash on the coast of the Caribbean Sea. Ther...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35357864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jack Plank is an unemployed pirate who needs a new job. He’s just been downsized – to use an anachronism for a tale set in 1720. It seems Jack was never too good at plundering; he was better at staying aboard and making soup. So, when the buccaneering business took a downturn, he was let go, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31266924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really enjoy this book very much.  It's really a collection of short stories/tall tales about an out of work pirate trying to find a job.<br/><br/><br/>From School Library Journal<br/>Grade 2-6–When a pirate ship falls on hard times, Jack Plank is let go because he is not very good at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7754302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jack Plank was not very good at being a pirate, so he decides go ashore in the islands where he hopes to find a new way of life. As he hunts for a job, he tells story after story about life among the pirates--including a Russian pirate who ends up with a crab AND a guinea pig living in his beard. I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81470270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;So you think there's a troll under our bridge,&quot; said old Miss Withers.  &quot;Will wonders never cease.&quot;  &quot;I hope they never cease, said her uncle.  &quot;I like a good wonder now and then.&quot;</em><br/><br/>Basically a linked series of stories, some funny, some mysterious, some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9308706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to be disappointed by Babbitt and her gift for deep notions told with simplicity. Jack Plank Tells Tales is a good, solid read-aloud with plenty of discussion points initiated by the cast of characters who listen daily to Jack's tales as they sit down for supper together. A cozy book with a hap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43569170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book because I love Natalie Babbitt as an author. It was fun to read and very short. The kids liked it because of the unusual and comedic stories Jack Plank tells. It made me laugh out loud over and over. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a good book not one of my favorites but still good While jack is searching for work , i think he learns a valuable lesson.  TO find out you'll have to read this book:)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perfectly nice, classroom-readable tales of a former pirate looking for a new career.  Full of Babbitt's classic wry humor and amazingly strange storytelling.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have really been waiting for this book. I have been waiting because I went to the Public Library and I asked to be on hold for the book and they said that I was the first person on the waiting list. Somone already had the book out. So I think that either my brother answered the phone and hung up o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31046718">more...</a>]]></body>
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