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Square Fish
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
350 pages
ISBN: 0374379939
EAN: 9780374379933
Kindle: B0058TWSB2
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Dead 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 fiesty 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 launced 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.
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