From Norvelt to Nowhere: 2 - Softcover

"Gantos employs gothic humor, scene-crafting mastery, and Jack's querulous voice to offer a wild and challenging road-trip novel, murder mystery, meditation on American history, and love story all in one." --The Horn Book

"The book is fast paced and laced with both history lessons and hilarity." --School Library Journal

"A hilarious havoc-ridden road trip." --BCCB, starred review

"Dollops of history and mystery, plus gross to wickedly barbed comical set pieces set in a talky, ambling, amiable odyssey." --Kirkus Reviews

"Fans of Dead End in Norvelt won't want to miss this lively sequel." --Booklist, starred review

"Gantos's sequel to his Newbery-winning Dead End in Norvelt offers less history, more murder, and another hefty helping of zaniness." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A bumper-car ride through history . . . Wonderfully wacky . . . darkly comic." --The Washington Post on DEAD END IN NORVELT

"This is a story like no other." --Jon Scieszka, founder of guysread.com on DEAD END IN NORVELT

"* Laugh-out-loud gothic comedy." --The Horn Book, starred review on DEAD END IN NORVELT

"* [A] wildly entertaining meld of truth and fiction." --Publishers Weekly, starred review on DEAD END IN NORVELT

"A brilliant book, full of history, mystery, and laughs." --Dave Barry, coauthor of the Peter and the Starcatchers series on DEAD END IN NORVELT