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Dead End in Norvelt (Norvelt Series, 1)

by Jack Gantos | Teens | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9781250010230 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingeponine38wing of Winchester, Massachusetts USA on 10/24/2022
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Journal Entry 1 by wingeponine38wing from Winchester, Massachusetts USA on Monday, October 24, 2022
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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 feisty 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 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 . . . 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.

Journal Entry 2 by wingeponine38wing at Little Free Library, Ridge St. in Arlington, Massachusetts USA on Thursday, October 27, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (10/27/2022 UTC) at Little Free Library, Ridge St. in Arlington, Massachusetts USA

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