# Cracker Jackson

**Author:** Betsy Cromer Byars
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 1985
**Page count:** 137
**Genre:** Adventure
**ISBN-13:** `9780670805464`
**ISBN-10:** `0670805467`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/cracker-jackson
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- wife abuse
- boys, fiction
- adventure and adventurers, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### William Allen White Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award (Emporia State University) — 1988 winner (4-8)](https://wawchildrensbookaward.com/)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award (Emporia State University) — 1988 winner (4-8)](https://wawchildrensbookaward.com/)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award (Emporia State University) — 1988 winner (4-8)](https://wawchildrensbookaward.com/)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award (Emporia State University) — 1988 winner (4-8)](https://wawchildrensbookaward.com/)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award (Emporia State University) — 1988 winner (4-8)](https://wawchildrensbookaward.com/)

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