Gantos, Jack.

Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos. - 1st Square Fish ed. - New York : Square Fish, 2013. �2011 - 341 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.

Wilson's Children, October 2012 Wilson's Junior High School, October 2012 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2012 School Library Journal, September 2011 Horn Book Starred, September 2011 Pub Weekly, July 2011 Kirkus Starred, August 2011 Horn Book, April 2012 Library Media Connection, November 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.

5.7. 5-8 Follett School Solutions.



Newbery Medal/Honor, 2012

1250010233


Human behavior--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.


Norvelt (Pa.)--History--Fiction.

PZ7.G15334 / Dd 2013

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