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Gantos employs gothic humor, scene-crafting mastery, and Jack's querulous voice to offer a wild and challenging road-trip novel, murder mystery, meditation on American history, and love story all in one. - The Horn Book Praise and accolades for DEAD END IN NORVELT (2011) 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 * [A] wildly entertaining meld of truth and fiction. Gantos employs gothic humor, scene-crafting mastery, and Jack's querulous voice to offer a wild and challenging road-trip novel, murder mystery, meditation on American history, and love story all in one. - The Horn Book The book is fast paced and laced with both history lessons and hilarity. -- School Library Journal A hilarious havoc-ridden road trip. -- BCCB, starred review Dollops of history and mystery, plus gross to wickedly barbed comical set pieces set in a talky, ambling, amiable odyssey. -- Kirkus Reviews Fans of Dead End in Norvelt won't want to miss this lively sequel. -- Booklist, starred review Gantos's sequel to his Newbery-winning Dead End in Norvelt offers less history, more murder, and another hefty helping of zaniness. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review Praise and accolades for DEAD END IN NORVELT (2011)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 A bumper-car ride through history . . . Wonderfully wacky . . . darkly comic. -- The Washington Post This is a story like no other. --Jon Scieszka, founder of guysread.com* Laugh-out-loud gothic comedy. -- The Horn Book, starred review* [A] wildly entertaining meld of truth and fiction. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review A brilliant book, full of history, mystery, and laughs. --Dave Barry, coauthor of the Peter and the Starcatchers series * Gantos's sequel to his Newbery-winning Dead End in Norvelt offers less history, more murder, and another hefty helping of zaniness. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review* Fans of Dead End in Norvelt won't want to miss this lively sequel. -- Booklist, starred review * A hilarious havoc-ridden road trip. -- BCCB, starred review Gantos employs gothic humor, scene-crafting mastery, and Jack's querulous voice to offer a wild and challenging road-trip novel, murder mystery, meditation on American history, and love story all in one. -- The Horn Book The book is fast paced and laced with both history lessons and hilarity. -- School Library Journal Dollops of history and mystery, plus gross to wickedly barbed comical set pieces set in a talky, ambling, amiable odyssey. -- Kirkus Reviews

* [A] wildly entertaining meld of truth and fiction.

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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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