This morning I finished reading Dead End in Norvelt. Here is the 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 fiesty 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 launced 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. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.
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So I was in a local book store trying to find some good books to use my gift card on. My mom saw this book and told me I should get. She had read about it online. I read the synopsis and liked the sound of it! So I got it! (Along with the Hunger Games! *I sigh with satisfaction*)
This book was written in a different way than any other book that I had ever read before! Not so much the writing style as what was being written. It didn't have any big action/adventure scenes, but it did have minor conflicts, which was slightly different then anything I had read before! So as strange and uninteresting as that sounds it held my interest from the start and I loved it! It was a very fun read! I really enjoyed reading it and it was a page turner for me!
I would rate it 6-7/10!
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