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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION
341 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374379933 (hbk.), 0374379939 (hbk.), 9781250010230 (pbk)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses
Paperback edition includes excerpt from From Norvelt to Nowhere
Also published: New York : Square Fish, 2013. 341 p
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