01279cam a2200289 4500 249367566 TxAuBib 20160102120000.0 110223s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010054009 9780374379933 hbk. 0374379939 hbk. TxAuBib Gantos, Jack. Dead end in Norvelt [Book] / Jack Gantos. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011. 341 p. ; 22 cm. 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. 20160102. Conduct of life Juvenile fiction. Old age Juvenile fiction. Old age Fiction. Behavior Fiction. Norvelt (Pa) History 20th century Juvenile fiction. Norvelt (Pa) History 20th century Fiction.