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Dead End in Norvelt
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Dead End in Norvelt Hardcover - 2011

by Jack Gantos


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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.

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  • Title Dead End in Norvelt
  • Author Jack Gantos
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr), New York
  • Date 2011-09-13
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780374379933 / 0374379939
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.2 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 3.05 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 14 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 9
  • Reading level 920
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Conduct of life, Behavior
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010054009
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2011, Page 49
  • BookPage, 09/01/2011, Page 0
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2011, Page 0
  • Horn Book Magazine, 09/01/2011, Page 85
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2012, Page 70
  • Kirkus Best Children's Books, 11/15/2011, Page 2118
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2011, Page 0
  • LJ Best Books of Year, 12/01/2011, Page 64
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/25/2011, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/07/2011, Page 40
  • School Library Journal, 09/01/2011, Page 154
  • Shelf Awareness, 08/10/2011, Page 0

About the author

Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults and adults. His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors; the Joey Pigza series, which include a Newbery Honor book and a National Book Award Finalist; Dead End in Norvelt, winner of the Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; and the Rotten Ralph series.
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