Dead End in Norvelt

Year of Publication
2011
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
341 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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.
Notes
Won the 2011 John Newbery Award of the American Library Association.
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.
Time
1962
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