Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Square Fish, 2013Copyright date: ©2011Edition: First Square Fish editionDescription: 341 pages, 34 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250010230
- 1250010233
- 9781480612204
- 1480612200
- 9780329983109
- 0329983105
- Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Old age -- Juvenile fiction
- Older women -- Juvenile fiction
- Obedience -- Juvenile fiction
- Neighbors -- Juvenile fiction
- Children -- Death -- Juvenile fiction
- Intergenerational relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Norvelt (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Newbery Medal winner, 2012.
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2012.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | GANTOS JACK | 1 | Available | 2012 Newbery Award Winner | 33111010770994 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes Dead end in Norvelt scrapbook.
Originally published in the United States: [New York] : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2011].
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.
Newbery Medal winner, 2012.
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2012.