TY - BOOK AU - Gantos,Jack TI - Dead end in Norvelt T2 - Norvelt SN - 9780374379933 PY - 2011///] CY - New York PB - Farrar Straus Giroux KW - Boys KW - Conduct of life KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Old age KW - Older women KW - Obedience KW - Children KW - Death KW - Intergenerational relations KW - Norvelt (Pa.) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Autobiographical fiction N1 - Sequel: From Norvelt to nowhere; Middle School; 920L; Lexile; Accelerated Reader; 5.7; Reading Counts; 6-8; 6.4; 18; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 5.7; 12.0; 146010; Lib 100; Reading Counts RC; 920; 6.4; 18.0; Q55036; Lib 100; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 5.7; 12.0; 146010; Reading Counts RC; 6-8; 6.4; 18; Quiz: 55036 N2 - 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 ER -