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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.
小男孩杰克对历史十分热衷，他最爱读小镇报纸上的“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。