Dead End in Norvelt - Couverture rigide

Gantos, Jack

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374379939 ISBN 13 : 9780374379933

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr), 2011

Synopsis

Dead End in Norvelt 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. Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Jack's summer has hit a dead end . . .

After being 'grounded for life', Jack is facing a summer of doing nothing. But who's got time to die of boredom when there are so many more interesting ways to die in this town?

He might crash in his dad's homemade plane, or catch the disease that makes you dance yourself to death, or fall foul of the motorcycle gang that wants to burn the town to the ground. Old people seem to be dying faster than Miss Volker can write their obituaries, and jack is starting to worry that it might not just be the rats eating the rat poison . . .

Darkly amusing as highly imaginative, Dead End in Norvelt is Jack Gantos's hilarious blend of the entirely true and the wildly fictional.

A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2011.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jack Gantos was born in Norvelt, Pennsylvania, and has spent time living in Barbados and South Florida. He has written books for readers of all ages, including the acclaimed Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key and its sequels, the teenage novel Desire Lines, and the youthful memoire Hole in My Life.

His is also the writer of Dead End in Norvelt and From Norvelt to Nowhere, a pair of semi-autobiographical novels about the importance of history and reading, the first of which won the prestigious Newbery Medal in 2012. He lives with his wife and daughter in Boston, Massachusetts.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0374379939
• ISBN 13: 9780374379933
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352