书名：Dead End in Norvelt诺福镇的奇幻夏天  

作者：Jack Gantos
出版社名称：Square Fish
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9781250010230
商品尺寸：13.2 x 2.6 x 19.5 cm
包装：平装
页数：384（以实物为准）

★2012年纽伯瑞金奖
★2012年斯奥台尔历史小说奖
★2011年《出版者周刊》儿童图书
★2011年《号角杂志》儿童图书
★2012年《卫报》儿童小说提名奖

精彩书评：
“一次妙趣横生的阅读。”——《学校图书馆杂志》
“作家甘托斯一如既往地给我们带来了欢乐的精神食粮。”——《书单》杂志

“一本美好的书，充满了历史、神秘和欢笑。让我回想起我那小镇上的童年，但它比起故事中诺福小镇上的生活可就平凡多了”——DaveBarry畅销作家、专栏作者，曾获普利策奖新闻奖

“作者的所有作品几乎都带点自传性质，这次，他干脆把书中的小男孩直接就叫成他自己的名字了：杰克·甘托斯。半真实半虚构的融合使这部小说充满了乐趣。”——《出版者周刊》

“有趣（还有点诡异）且富有洞察力的视角，描绘了一个孩子的成长。会让那些不爱读书的孩子都抵抗不了它的诱惑”——美国儿童图书中心公告牌

“比放声大笑的哥特式戏剧还要精彩。这部半自传似的小说是对当年的那段时光和那个地方的颂歌，阅读中充满着力量。”——《号角》杂志星级评论

“没人能像杰克·甘托斯这样讲故事。而这部小说又在杰克的所有作品中脱颖而出。它既有趣，又诡异，引人深思。但你们不会想让我给你们讲这个故事的，你们会想自己亲自阅读的。”——乔·塞恩斯卡“大家来阅读”网站创始人

Review
“This is a brilliant book, full of history, mystery, and laughs. It reminded me of my small-town childhood, although my small town was never as delightfully weird as Norvelt.” ―Dave Barry

“* A bit of autobiography works its way into all of Gantos's work, but he one-ups himself in this wildly entertaining meld of truth and fiction by naming the main character . . . Jackie Gantos.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A fast-paced and witty read.” ―School Library Journal

“A more quietly (but still absurdly) funny and insightful account of a kid's growth, kin to Gantos's Jack stories, that will stealthily hook even resistant readers into the lure of history.” ―BCCB

“This winning novel, both humorous and heartwarming, takes place during the summer of 1962, when narrator Jack Gantos turns 12 and spends most of his days grounded. Jack's main ‘get out of jail free card,' and one of the novel's most charming characters, is Miss Volker. The blossoming of their friendship coincides with the blooming of Jack's character.” ―Shelf Awareness Pro

“* An exhilarating summer marked by death, gore and fire sparks deep thoughts in a small-town lad not uncoincidentally named 'Jack Gantos.' The gore is all Jack's, which to his continuing embarrassment 'would spray out of my nose holes like dragon flames' whenever anything exciting or upsetting happens. And that would be on every other page, seemingly. . . . Characteristically provocative gothic comedy, with sublime undertones.” ―Kirkus Reviews, starred review
小男孩杰克对历史十分热衷，他读小镇报纸上的“历史上的今天”栏目，还有历史课本上那些伟人的丰功伟绩。终于盼到放暑假的日子了，但这个暑假并非他期盼的那么好，妈妈要他每天早晨六点起床去帮助手患风湿的邻居沃尔克小姐去打字。沃尔克小姐终身未嫁，是个老小姐。她曾是小镇的总护士长，现在做着小镇的验尸官，叫杰克来帮忙就是听她口述逝者的讣告，然后在打字机上打出来，再送到小镇报纸的编辑手里。

随着这一篇又一篇讣告的敲打，杰克发现自己进入了一场惊险、刺激、悬念迭起的奇幻旅程……
这个夏天，注定将是个不平凡的夏天。
Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!

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.

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.

杰克甘托斯，一位多产的美国文学作家,他的创作领域涵盖成人小说、青少年小说以及低幼故事绘本等，受到不同年龄读者的喜爱。

他的作品将真实历史与天马行空的想象完美结合，故事情节充满张力，细节设置巧妙，引人入胜，耐人寻味。
此次《诺维尔特小镇的奇幻夏天》摘得纽伯瑞金奖桂冠，已是他第二次受到纽伯瑞奖评审会的青睐。他的另一作品《失去控制的乔伊》曾夺得2010年纽伯瑞儿童文学银奖。他还获得过波士顿全球号角书奖、美国普林兹青少年文学奖、美国罗伯特希尔伯特文学奖，并多次提名美国国家图书奖。
Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults and adults. His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors; the Joey Pigza series, which include a Newbery Honor book and a National Book Award Finalist; Dead End in Norvelt, winner of the Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; and the Rotten Ralph series.