Gantos, Jack

Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos - 1st edition - 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.


English

9780374379933


Behavior---Juvenile literature
Old age----Fiction


Norvelt (PA)---20th century----Fiction


Humorous stories----Juvenile fiction

PZ7.G15334 / Dd 2011

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