His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won the Michael L. bioText: Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults and adults.value: historical fiction books on tape.value: historical fiction books for kids.value: chapter books for readers age 9 12.SortTitle Dead End in Norvelt Norvelt Series Book 01 crossRefId 624075 series Norvelt subtitle Norvelt Series Series, Book 1 id 3A97E097-3E03-4567-AB34-58D9E483227B starRating 4 OverDrive MetaData interestLevel MG isPublicDomain False formats name: Front Range Downloadable Library (CO).

IsOwnedB圜ollections True title Dead End in Norvelt seriesId 813504 dateAdded T19:48:18.063Z contentDetails OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images and possibly murder.Įndlessly 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. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched 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. 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. 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. 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!

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