Dead End in Norvelt

Dead End in Norvelt
First edition
AuthorJack Gantos
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's historical novel, autobiographical novel, mystery, comedy, political economy
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
September 13, 2011
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages341 pp
ISBN978-0-374-37993-3
OCLC692290969
LC ClassPZ7.G15334 Dd 2011[1]
Followed byFrom Norvelt to Nowhere 

Dead End in Norvelt is an autobiographical novel by the American author Jack Gantos, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2011. It features a boy named Jack Gantos and is based in the author's hometown, Norvelt, Pennsylvania. According to one reviewer, the "real hero" is "his home town and its values", a "defiantly political" message.[2]

The American Library Association awarded Gantos and Dead End the 2012 Newbery Medal, honoring the book as the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".[3][4] It also won the annual Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.[5] In Britain, where it was published by the Transworld Publishers imprint Corgi Books, it was one of eight books on the longlist for the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.[6]

Newbery medal judges called the book "achingly funny"[4] and one British reviewer called it "rib-splitting".[7]

  1. ^ Gantos, Jack (2011). Dead end in Norvelt. Farrar Straus Giroux. LCCN 2010054009.
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