Dead end in Norvelt

The Resource Dead end in Norvelt
Label
Dead end in Norvelt
Statement of responsibility
Jack Gantos
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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
Member of
Awards note
  • Newbery Medal, 2012
  • Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2012.
Cataloging source
DLC
Index
no index present
Intended audience
  • Middle School
  • 920L
Intended audience source
Lexile
Interest level
  • 6-8
  • MG
  • 920
  • MG
  • 6-8
Literary form
fiction
Reading level
  • 5.7.
  • 6.4
  • 5.7
  • 6.4
  • 5.7
  • 6.4
Series statement
Norvelt
Series volume
bk. 1
Study program name
  • Accelerated Reader
  • Reading Counts
  • Accelerated Reader AR
  • Reading Counts RC
  • Accelerated Reader AR
  • Reading Counts RC
Target audience
pre adolescent

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Context of Dead end in Norvelt

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