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Looooooved this! I was sad when Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt didn't win the Newbery, but I knew Dead End in Norvelt was supposed to be kind of similar. It was and amazingly enough I liked it even more! Jack Gantos is grounded for the summer and the only times he gets to escape the house is when h...
There are authors you suspect must be dead. Face it, when you haven’t heard anything from an author in years, you think they must have passed on and perhaps you just missed seeing the obit.I thought Jack Gantos was dead. Well, I thought he was dead until I saw him at last fall’s Texas Book Festival,...
It is hard to know how to describe this story. It is supposed to be a melding of events that are entirely true and wildly fictional. I, for one, have no idea which were which. This is historical fiction taking place in the summer of 1962 about a young boy named Jack Gantos is a poor Pennsylvania tow...
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