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  Title

  Dead end in Norvelt 1st ed.

  Author

  Gantos, Jack.  

  Publisher:

  Farrar Straus Giroux,

  Pub date:

  c2011.

  Pages:

  341 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9780374379933

  Item info:

  1 copy available at House of Learning Library.
  

  • Holdings			Change Display
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    	Copy	Material	Location
    PZ 7 .G15334 D4 2011	1	Book	STACKS

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  Dead end in Norvelt 1st ed.
  Gantos, Jack.
  

  Personal Author:

  Gantos, Jack.

  Title:

  Dead end in Norvelt / Jack Gantos.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Physical descrip:

  341 p. ; 21 cm.

  ISBN:

  9780374379933

  ISBN:

  0374379939

  Abstract:

  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.

  Held by:

  HOL

  Subject term:

  Behavior--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Old age--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Boys--Juvenile fiction.

  Subject term:

  Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.

  Subject term:

  Older women--Juvenile fiction.

  Geographic term:

  Norvelt (Pa.)--History--20th century--Fiction.

  Geographic term:

  Norvelt (Pa.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.

  Genre index term:

  Historical fiction.

  Genre index term:

  Autobiographical fiction.