Dead End in Norvelt

  Newbery Medal

2012 Newbery Medal winner. In Dead End in Norvelt is a witty and wise bit of autobiography from Young Teen fiction phenom Jack Gantos. The novel finds the narrator casting a quirky look back at his youth, when a mischievous act that earned him a summer indoors led to a life-changing experience working with a savvy senior citizen.

BROWSE AWARD-WINNING BOOK LISTS

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Newbery Medal Winners

2012

Dead End in Norvelt , by Jack Gantos

2011

Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool

2010

When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead

2009

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman

2008

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village , by Laura Amy Schlitz

2007

The Higher Power of Lucky , by Susan Patron

2006

Criss Cross , by Lynne Rae Perkins

2005

Kira-Kira , by Cynthia Kadohata

2004

The Tale of Despereaux , by Kate DiCamillo

2003

Crispin: The Cross of Lead , by Avi

2002

A Single Shard , by Linda Sue Park

2001

A Year Down Yonder , by Richard Peck

2000

Bud, Not Buddy , by Christopher Paul Curtis

1999

Holes , by Louis Sachar

1998

Out of the Dust , by Karen Hesse

1997

The View From Saturday , by E.L. Konigsburg

1996

The Midwife's Apprentice , by Karen Cushman

1995

Walk Two Moons , by Sharon Creech

1994

The Giver , by Lois Lowry

1993

Missing May , by Cynthia Rylant

1992

Shiloh , by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1991

Maniac Magee , by Jerry Spinelli

1990

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

1989

Joyful Noise , by Paul Fleischman

1988

Lincoln: a Photobiography , by Russell Freedman

1987

The Whipping Boy , by Sid Fleischman

1986

Sarah, Plain and Tall , by Patricia MacLachlan

1985

The Hero and the Crown , by Robin McKinley

1984

Dear Mr. Henshaw , by Beverly Cleary

1983

Dicey's Song , by Cynthia Voigt

1982

A Visit To William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard

1981

Jacob Have I Loved , by Katherine Paterson

1980

A Gathering Of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 , by Joan Blos

1979

The Westing Game , by Ellen Raskin

1978

Bridge to Terabithia , by Katherine Paterson

1977

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry , by Mildred Taylor

1976

The Grey King , by Susan Cooper

1975

M.C. Higgins, The Great , by Virginia Hamilton

1974

The Slave Dancer , by Paula Fox

1973

Julie of the Wolves , by Jean Craighead George

1972

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH , by Robert C. O'Brien

1971

Summer of the Swans , by Betsy, byars

1970

Sounder , by William H. Armstrong

1969

The High King , by Lloyd Alexander

1968

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler , by E. L. Konigsburg

1967

Up a Road Slowly , by Irene Hunt

1966

I, Juan de Pareja , by Elizabeth Borten de Trevino

1965

Shadow of a Bull , by Maia Wojciechowska

1964

It's Like This, Cat , by Emily Cheney Neville

1963

A Wrinkle in Time , by Madeleine L'Engle

1962

The Bronze Bow , by Elizabeth George Speare

1961

Island of the Blue Dolphins , by Scott O'Dell

1960

Onion John , by Joseph Krumgold

1959

The Witch of Blackbird Pond , by Elizabeth George Speare

1958

Rifles for Watie , by Harold Keith

1957

Miracles on Maple Hill , by Virginia Sorenson

1956

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch , by Jean Lee Latham

1955

The Wheel on the School , by Meindert Dejong

1954

And Now Miguel , by Joseph Krumgold

1953

Secret of the Andes , by Ann Nolan Clark

1952

Ginger Pye , by Eleanor Estes

1951

Amos Fortune, Free Man , by Elizabeth Yates

1950

The Door In The Wall , by Marguerite de Angeli

1949

King of the Wind , by Marguerite Henry

1948

The Twenty-One Balloons , by William Pene du Boish

1947

Miss Hickory , by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

1946

Strawberry Girl , by Lois Lenski

1945

Rabbit Hill , by Robert Lawson

1944

Johnny Tremain , by Esther Forbes

1943

Adam of the Road , by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1942

The Matchlock Gun , by Walter D. Edmonds

1941

Call It Courage , by Armstrong Sperry

1940

Daniel Boone , by James Daugherty

1939

Thimble Summer , by Elizabeth Enright

1938

The White Stag , by Kate Seredy

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