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Title Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos.
Author Gantos, Jack, author.
Publisher New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Description 341 pages : illustrations, photographs, map ; 20 cm
Edition First edition.
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LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 LW-Children's Room  J GAN Nearby on shelf  30641004432725 06-14-23  AVAILABLE
Note Includes Dead End in Norvelt Scrapbook.
NOTE Accelerated Reader MG 5.7 12 146010
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.
Audience 920L Lexile
Awards Newbery Medal, 2012.
Subject Summer -- Juvenile fiction.
Boys -- Juvenile fiction.
Helping behavior -- Juvenile fiction.
Older women -- Juvenile fiction.
Old age -- Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Newbery Medal.
Norvelt (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre Young adult fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Local subject Leveled reading level Y.
ISBN 9781250010230
9780374379933
0374379939