Dead end in Norvelt /
Jack Gantos. --
- 1st Square Fish ed. --
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013, c2011.
- 341 p.
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.