Book description
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 that are eating
the rat poison . . .
Dead End in Norvelt is Jack Gantos's hilarious blend
of the entirely true and the wildly fictional, from one of the most
darkly amusing imaginations writing today.
Jack Gantos was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania and has written
books for all ages, including the acclaimed
Joey Pigza
series. He lives with his wife and daughter in Boston, Massachusetts.
