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Dead end in Norvelt
Title:
Dead end in Norvelt
Author:
Gantos, Jack.
Personal Author:
Gantos, Jack.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2011]

©2011
Physical Description:
341 pages ; 21 cm
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.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
920 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 12.0 146010.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 6.4 18 Quiz: 55036.
Subject Term:
Behavior -- Juvenile fiction.

Old age -- Juvenile fiction.

Boys -- Juvenile fiction.

Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.

Older women -- Juvenile fiction.
Geographic Term:
Norvelt (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.

Autobiographical fiction.
ISBN:
9780374379933

9781250010230

9781480612204
Format :
Book

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