Dead End in Norvelt
Year of Publication |
2011
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Publication Type |
Novel
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Number of Pages or Episodes |
341 p.
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Language |
English
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Contributors |
Author:
Jack Gantos |
Publisher |
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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City |
New York
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Abstract |
Jack Gantos, 12, is grounded for various offenses until he is forced to help an elderly neighbor with a very strange chore.
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Notes |
Won the 2011 John Newbery Award of the American Library Association.
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Author Biography |
Jack Gantos (1951- ), born and raised in Norvelt, Westmoreland County, earned his BFA and MA at Emerson College. The author of many children's books, he is best known for his fictional character Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza. Gantos lives in Boston.
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Time |
1962
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