Dead End in Norvelt (First Edition) (Norvelt Series #1)

Synopsis

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 fiesty 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 launced 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.

Winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

Copyright:

2011

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781429962506

Related ISBNs:

9780374379933

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Date of Addition:

07/22/19

Copyrighted By:

Jack Gantos

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family

Grade Levels:

Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Seventh grade, Eighth grade, Ninth grade

Reading Age:

10–14

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.