Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos
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TextEdition: First Square Fish editionDescription: 341 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN: 9781250010230; 1250010233; 9781480612204; 1480612200Subject(s): Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | Old age -- Juvenile fiction | Obedience -- Juvenile fiction | Children -- Death -- Juvenile fiction | Intergenerational relations -- Juvenile fiction | Norvelt (Pa.) -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Fiction. | Juvenile works. | Autobiographical fiction -- Juvenile. | Historical fiction -- Juvenile. | Humorous stories -- Juvenile. 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
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | FIC/GANTOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500040338 | |
| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | YA/FIC/GANTOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 03/28/2023 | 39844500029935 |
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| YA/FIC/FOON The Keeper's Shadow./ | YA/FIC/FORMAN Just one day / | YA/FIC/GANTOS Dead end in Norvelt / | YA/FIC/GANTOS Dead end in Norvelt / | YA/FIC/GRAHAME The Wind in the Willows./ | YA/FIC/GREEN Paper towns / | YA/FIC/HAN The Summer I turned pretty / |
Includes Dead end in Norvelt scrapbook
Originally published in the United States: [New York] : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2011]
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
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