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Dead end in Norvelt  Cover Image Book Book

Dead end in Norvelt

Gantos, Jack (author.).

Summary: In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250010230 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    341 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Square Fish, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes Dead end in Norvelt scrapbook.
Subject: Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
Obedience -- Juvenile fiction
Children -- Death -- Juvenile fiction
Intergenerational relations -- Juvenile fiction
Old age -- Juvenile fiction
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
Newbery Medal
Norvelt (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.

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Summary: In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.

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