6/19/2023 0 Comments Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos![]() ![]() One of these residents, an old man named Mr. She promised Eleanor that she would stay in Norvelt and keep records on the town’s original residents until the last one died. Miss Volker was appointed by Eleanor Roosevelt to be the town’s medical examiner and chief nurse. In each obituary they write, they link the life of the deceased to an event in history. The only time Jack is allowed out of the house is to help his elderly neighbor, Miss Volker, write obituaries for the town paper. At the beginning of the novel, he is grounded for the whole summer for firing his father’s Japanese sniper rifle at a drive-in movie screen, not realizing that the rifle was loaded. He is mostly an ordinary 11-year-old boy, but tends to get nosebleeds when he is nervous or stressed. ![]() Jack Gantos lives in Norvelt with his parents. The year is 1962, about three decades after the town of Norvelt was founded by Eleanor Roosevelt it was one of many small, New Deal towns designed to help low-income people. ![]() It was also a finalist for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. It won the Newbery Medal for children’s literature in 2012 and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction in the same year. The novel earned many critical accolades at the time of its publication. The book, which is based in part on the author’s own childhood, follows the adventures of an 11-year-old boy named Jack, in the small town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania. Dead End in Norvelt is a 2011 novel written by American author Jack Gantos. ![]()
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