Awards

• Short-listed for Alabama Camellia Award (Fiction (Grades 6-8)) 2014

Overview

This rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal-winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens deep in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania. After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the town's founder, twelve-year-old Jack will soon find himself launched on a mission that takes him hundreds of miles away, escorting his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on her relentless pursuit of the oddest of outlaws. But as their trip turns south in more ways than one, it's increasingly clear that the farther from home they travel, the more off-the-wall Jack and Miss Volker's adventure becomes, in From Norvelt to Nowhere, a raucous road novel about roots and revenge, a last chance at love, and the power of a remarkable friendship. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013

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9780374379940

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Reviews

<p>Praise and accolades for DEAD END IN NORVELT (2011)<p>Newbery Medal Book, Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction Winner, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book, a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, an NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts, a Junior Library Guild Selection, a Kiddo Award Nominee, a Capitol Choices Noteworthy Title for Children and Teens, Horn Book Fanfare, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Children's Book of the Year <p> A bumper-car ride through history . . . Wonderfully wacky . . . darkly comic. -- The Washington Post <p> This is a story like no other. --Jon Scieszka, founder of guysread.com<p>* Laugh-out-loud gothic comedy. -- The Horn Book , starred review<p>* [A] wildly entertaining meld of truth and fiction. <p>-- Publishers Weekly , starred review<p> <p> A brilliant book, full of history, mystery, and laughs. --Dave Barry, coauthor of the Peter and the Starcatchers series

Author Information

Jack Gantos was raised in the town of Norvelt and now lives in Boston. In addition to his two Norvelt novels, he is also the acclaimed author of the Joey Pigza series, the Jack Henry story collections, and the many Rotten Ralph books.

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