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Author Gantos, Jack.

Title Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos
Edition First edition
Published New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2011]
©2011
©2011

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Description 341 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
Summary 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
Notes Sequel: From Norvelt to nowhere
Audience Ages 10 and up
Notes Accelerated Reader 5.7
Newbery Medal winner, 2012
Subject Behavior -- Fiction
Behavior -- Juvenile fiction
Boys -- Juvenile fiction.
Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Children -- Death -- Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Holidays -- Juvenile fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Neighbors -- Juvenile fiction.
Obedience -- Juvenile fiction.
Old age -- Fiction.
Old age -- Juvenile fiction.
Older women -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Behavior -- Fiction.
Humorous stories.
Old age -- Fiction.
William Allen White -- 2013-2014
SUBJECT Norvelt (Pa.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91084652 -- History -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Norvelt (Pa.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91084652 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Norvelt (Pa.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91084652 -- History -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Norvelt (Pa.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91084652 -- History -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Autobiographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Author Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, publisher
R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company, printer
LC no. 2010054009
ISBN 9780374379933