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|title=Dead End In Norvelt

|author=Jack Gantos

|publisher=Yearling Books

|date=March 2012

|website=http://www.jackgantos.com/

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|summary=''Dead End in Norvelt'' is a quirky semi-autobiography with some deliciously dark humour that is unfortunately let down by a lack of direction in the plot.

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Meet Jack Gantos. Grounded for the summer after an accident with a Japanese rifle, Jack expected his holiday to be spent doing chores and reading his history books. So when the old people in his off-kilter town suddenly start dropping like flies, he jumps at the chance to be an assistant to Miss Volker, one of the Norvelt originals and a personification of the town's old-fashioned ideals and reverence to history. While faithfully typing up the unique and flavoured obituaries that Miss Volker orates, Jack finds himself learning a lot about the origins of his dying town, about the history of America, about a lot of things in fact, while simultaneously being drawn into the oddest of murder mysteries.