Dead end in Norvelt, Jack Gantos
Type
Label
Dead end in Norvelt, Jack Gantos
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Intended audience
Middle School
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Dead end in Norvelt
Oclc number
692290969
Responsibility statement
Jack Gantos
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, 5.7
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
Target audience
pre adolescent
Classification
Creator
Genre
Subject
- Children + Death
- Juvenile works
- Human behavior -- Fiction
- Obedience -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 2011
- Historical fiction
- Humorous stories
- Boys + Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Behavior -- Fiction
- Old age
- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Old age -- Juvenile fiction
- Norvelt (Pa.) -- History -- Fiction
- Children + Death -- Juvenile fiction
- Intergenerational relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Obedience
- Humorous stories -- Juvenile
- Norvelt (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Newbery Medal: Winner -- 2012
- Norvelt (Pa.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Old age -- Fiction
- Autobiographical fiction
- Intergenerational relations
- Pennsylvania + Norvelt
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction: Winner -- 2012
- Conduct of life
- Boys + Conduct of life
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre8
- Subject28
- Children + Death
- Juvenile works
- Human behavior -- Fiction
- Obedience -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 2011
- Historical fiction
- Humorous stories
- Boys + Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Behavior -- Fiction
- Old age
- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Old age -- Juvenile fiction
- Norvelt (Pa.) -- History -- Fiction
- Children + Death -- Juvenile fiction
- Intergenerational relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Obedience
- Humorous stories -- Juvenile
- Norvelt (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Newbery Medal: Winner -- 2012
- Norvelt (Pa.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Old age -- Fiction
- Autobiographical fiction
- Intergenerational relations
- Pennsylvania + Norvelt
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction: Winner -- 2012
- Conduct of life
- Boys + Conduct of life
- Mapped to1