Dead End in Norvelt: (Newbery Medal Winner)

by Jack Gantos

Book Overview

Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the Newbery Medal for best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374379939
• ISBN13: 9780374379933
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9