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From Norvelt to Nowhere
Jack Gantos
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2013
On Sale: September 24, 2013
ISBN: 0374379947
EAN: 9780374379940
Kindle: B00C2RVPDK
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Young Adult
This rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal–winning
novel Dead End in Norvelt opens deep in the shadow of the
Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other
kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and
his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania. After
an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad
passing of the town’s founder, twelve-year-old Jack will
soon find himself launched on a mission that takes him
hundreds of miles away, escorting his slightly mental
elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on her relentless pursuit of
the oddest of outlaws. But as their trip turns south in more
ways than one, it’s increasingly clear that the farther from
home they travel, the more off-the-wall Jack and Miss
Volker’s adventure becomes, in From Norvelt to Nowhere, a
raucous road novel about roots and revenge, a last chance at
love, and the power of a remarkable friendship.
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