Dead end in Norvelt /Jack Gantos.

Gantos, Jack,

Dead end in Norvelt /Jack Gantos. - first edition. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, (c)2011. - 341 pages ; 21 cm.

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.

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Boys--Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Older women--Juvenile fiction.
Behavior--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.

PZ7 / .D433 2011 PS3557