Dead End in Norvelt (Norvelt #1) (Newbery Medal Winner)
by Gantos, Jack
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0374379939
- ISBN 13
- 9780374379933
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About This Item
NY: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. NINTH PRINTING w/DJ wrapped in mylar. Physical Info: 1.2" H x 8.3" L x 5.7" W (0.95 lbs) 352 pages. Features: Ikids, Dust Cove, Price on Product, Excerpt.
Initial Print Run: 60000 Target Age Group: 10 to 14. Secure ship w/track #. ead 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.
Initial Print Run: 60000 Target Age Group: 10 to 14. Secure ship w/track #. ead 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.
Reviews
On Oct 7 2014, a reader said:
There were some funny moments about life back then, but I didn't like what the characters chose to make funny.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16715
- Title
- Dead End in Norvelt (Norvelt #1) (Newbery Medal Winner)
- Author
- Gantos, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_boards
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374379939
- ISBN 13
- 9780374379933
- Publisher
- Farrar , Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- Newbery Medal Winner - Children's; Capitol Choices; Scott O Dell Award; Guardian Children's Fiction Prize; Sequoyah Book Awards Nominee; William Allen White Childrens Book Award; Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award; Volunteer State Book Award No
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