Author: Jack Gantos
# of Pages: 341 (hardback)
Genre: YA, Historical Fiction, Humor
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Synopsis: Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets.
But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a feisty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his Utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder.
Review: This is one of the weirdest books I've read in a long time.
I heard that there was humor in it, but I think I was cringing more than I was laughing. The people who live in Norvelt are crazy. And then, to my horror, I find out that the author is Jack Gantos! If this is, in any way, based off of his childhood, I'm horrified.
Read if you dare!
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