Children's Literature
- Judy Crowder
Talk about a road trip! In this follow-up to Gantos' 2012 Newbery medal winning Dead End in Norvelt, the Cuban missile crisis is in the headlines, but barely on young Jack Gantos' radar. That is because he is back helping out the more-than-eccentric Mrs. Volker, a founding member of Norvelt, the utopian Pennsylvania town supposedly begun by Eleanor Roosevelt. Jack was loaned to Mrs. Volker by his mother to help write obituaries for the town paper. And they have been very busy. All the elderly founders have been dropping like flies (murdered?) and Mrs. Volker is the only old lady left—that is, until Mrs. Custard, another founder, moves back to Norvelt only to be murdered by the nefarious Mr.
