Jack's Back

by Norah McClintock

McClintock, Nora

238 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

Norah McClintock’s fascinating mysteries are hard to put down. Her Chloe & Levesque series, Mike & Riel series, and Robyn Hunter series, all published by Scholastic Canada, have been popular with readers in many countries. Norah has also written several crime novels for reluctant readers in the Orca Soundings series from Orca Book Publishers,

Norah is a five-time winner of the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Novel. Read Mistaken Identity, The Body in the Basement, Sins of the Father, Scared to Death, and Break and Enter to find out why! Norah's books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and she has won numerous awards.

Awards:
Arthur Ellis Award - Juvenile
o 1996 – Mistaken Identity – Winner
o 1998 – The Body in the Basement – Winner
o 1999 – Sins of the Father – Winner
o 2002 – Scared to Death – Winner
o 2003 – Break and Enter – Winner

Red Maple Award
o 2004 – Hit and Run – Winner

Reviews

[Mugisho Ntibonera · Rating 4 out of 5]

My book is Back by Norah McClintock. The character in my book Jojo. Jojo is greatful to his mother
because Jojo only have only a mother and he doesn’t have any father. But Jojo used to be a bad person in
the past but now he is outta jail and become a good person. Jojo also outta jail and taking care of his mom
and he was the only son. Jojo hushed to be a bad guy in the past. So Jojo had been killed Ardell brother,
so Ardell want revenge. So he gots to jail and his mother was a good mother but also worry about his son.
“Ardell has been saying the same thing a lot, ever since we got word that Jojo was coming back. Another
thing Ardell has been saying a lot: he’s not afraid of Jojo.” (Jojo page14). In the end of the story Jojo were
had been killed by Ardell at night. But Jojo have change that what people know. But Ardell want his
revenge on Jojo. So is sad that Jojo mother left alone.

[Joy Slykhuis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent, gripping book about Jack Thorne, almost 18, who has come out of an 8 month coma with total amnesia - and he's afraid of what he'll discover about himself as he returns to a home and school he has no memory of. So far, he's not too crazy about what he's learning about who he is (was?).

This is one of the few books I can honestly say should have been a lot longer...a lot of really interesting story lines were just dropped, and the whole things was just wrapped up neat and tidy - and abruptly. I wish I could read more about Jack.