Dead End in Norvelt, Paperback
Descriere
Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is ""grounded for life"" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a feisty old neighbor with a most unusual chore--typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.
Despre autor
Jack Gantos este un autor american de cărți pentru copii. Este cel mai bine cunoscut pentru personajele fictive Rotten Ralph și Joey Pigza. Rotten Ralph este un pisic care apare în douăzeci de cărți ilustrate scrise de Gantos și ilustrate de Nicole Rubel între 1976 și 2014. Joey Pigza este un băiat cu tulburare de deficit de atenție cu hiperactivitate (ADHD), prezent în cinci romane publicate între 1998 și 2014.
