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Author Gantos, Jack.

Title Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos.

Imprint New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c2011.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.54 G158d 2011    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
 Eureka Juvenile Fiction  JF Gan    ---  Available
 Lakeside Fiction  F GAN c.2  ---  Available
 Meadowlark Fiction  F GAN c.2  ---  Available
 Nettels Fiction  F GANTOS    ---  Available
 PCMS Historical Fiction  J Gantos    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Fiction  J Gantos    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Series  J Gantos c.2  ---  Available
 Westside Fiction  F GAN    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 341 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary 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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader ATOS RL 5.7 P 12.0 WEST LAKE LARK GNET
Source NBK 12/11 PPLY
Awards Newbery Medal winner, 2012.
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2012.
Subject Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Old age -- Juvenile fiction.
Norvelt (Pa.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Old age -- Fiction.
Behavior -- Fiction.
Norvelt (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Human behavior -- Fiction.
Old age -- Fiction.
Norvelt (Pa.) -- History -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Humorous stories -- Juvenile.
Historical fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
ISBN 9780374379933
0374379939

 
    
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