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In 1962 norvelt, pennsylvania, summer moves slowly for twelveyearold jack gantos. With surprises at every turn and more than a few outright gasps. But escape comes where jack least expects it, once his mom loans him out to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore a chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, girl scout cookies, underage. Dead end in norvelt is an autobiographical novel by the american author jack gantos. Dead end in norvelt won gantos the prestigious newbery medal when the book was published in 2011. In the book dead end on norvelt, people use power to control others. Dead end in norvelt is an autobiographical novel by the american author jack gantos, published by farrar, straus, and giroux in 2011. Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, dead end in norvelt is the story of an incredible two months for a boy named jack gantos.

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