Dead end in Norvelt /
Gantos, Jack.
Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c2011. - 341 p. ; 21 cm.
Sequel: From Norvelt to nowhere.
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.
9780374379933
2010054009
Behavior--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.
Humorous stories.
Norvelt (Pa.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
NEWBERY AWARD
PZ7.G15334 / Dd 2011
Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c2011. - 341 p. ; 21 cm.
Sequel: From Norvelt to nowhere.
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.
9780374379933
2010054009
Behavior--Fiction.
Old age--Fiction.
Humorous stories.
Norvelt (Pa.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
NEWBERY AWARD
PZ7.G15334 / Dd 2011