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Dead End in Norvelt
  • Published: 26 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448120673
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Dead End in Norvelt

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2 Apr 2012
EBook
26 Apr 2012
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A gripping, hilarious and wildly imaginative tale about one of the strangest towns you'll ever visit.

Winner of the Newbery Medal 2012. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2013

Jack's summer has hit a dead end . . .

After being 'grounded for life', Jack is facing a summer of doing nothing. But who's got time to die of boredom when there are so many more interesting ways to die in this town?

He might crash in his dad's homemade plane, or catch the disease that makes you dance yourself to death, or fall foul of the motorcycle gang that wants to burn the town to the ground. Old people seem to be dying faster than Miss Volker can write their obituaries, and Jack is starting to worry that it might not just be the rats that are eating the rat poison . . .

Dead End in Norvelt is Jack Gantos's hilarious blend of the entirely true and the wildly fictional, from one of the most darkly amusing imaginations writing today.
  • Published: 26 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448120673
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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About the author

Jack Gantos

Jack Gantos is the award-winning author of more than 50 books for young readers. He is the creator of the Rotten Ralph picture books, Jack Henry short stories, and the Joey Pigza series. He is also the author of Dead End in Norvelt (a Newbery Medal winner), From Norvelt to Nowhere, and the young adult novels The Trouble in Me, The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs, and Desire Lines. His memoir, Hole in My Life, received Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert honors. Gantos was a professor of creative writing at Emerson College, where he developed the master’s degree program in children’s literature, writing, and publishing.
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Also by Jack Gantos

The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza
The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza
Joey Pigza Swallowed The Key
What Would Joey Pigza Do?
Joey Pigza Loses Control
From Norvelt to Nowhere
Desire Lines
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Praise for Dead End in Norvelt

This is a brilliant book, full of history, mystery, and laughs. It reminded me of my small-town childhood, although my small town was never as delightfully weird as Norvelt

Dave Barry

A bit of autobiography works its way into all of Gantos's work, but he one-ups himself in this wildly entertaining meld of truth and fiction by naming the main character . . . Jackie Gantos

Publishers Weekly

Gantos, as always, delivers bushels of food for thought and plenty of outright guffaws

Booklist

A fast-paced and witty read

School Library Journal