From Norvelt to Nowhere

by Jack Gantos

Book Overview

This rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal-winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens deep in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania. After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the town's founder, twelve-year-old Jack will soon find himself launched on a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374379947
• ISBN13: 9780374379940
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9