Jack Gantos

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Dead End in NorveltHardcover, 13 September 2011

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Reading Age
Ages: 10-14
Grade Levels
5-9
Part of Series
Norvelt
Part of Series
Norvelt Series, 1
Print Length
352 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Date Published
13 Sep 2011
ISBN-10
0374379939
ISBN-13
9780374379933

Description

Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!

Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is grounded for life by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a feisty old neighbor with a most unusual chore--typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder.

Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.

Product Details

Audience:
Ages: 10-14
Author:
Jack Gantos
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
13 September 2011
Dimensions:
21.08 x 14.48 x 3.05 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 5-9
ISBN-10:
0374379939
ISBN-13:
9780374379933
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
352
Weight:
430.91 gm

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