Dead end in Norvelt /
Jack Gantos.
- 1st ed.
- 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.
Newbery Medal, 2012
9780374379933
2010054009
Behavior--Fiction. Old age--Fiction. Humorous stories.