Gantos, Jack.

Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c2011. - 341 p. ; 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 Award winner, 2012.

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Behavior--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.


Norvelt (Pa.)--History--20th century--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PZ7.G15334 / Dd 2011

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