Jack's summer has hit a dead end ...After being 'grounded forlife', Jack is facing a summer of doing nothing. But who's got timeto die of boredom when there are so many more interesting ways todie in this town? He might crash in his dad's homemade plane, orcatch the disease that makes you dance yourself to death, or fallfoul of the motorcycle gang that wants to burn the town to theground. Old people seem to be dying faster than Miss Volker canwrite their obituaries, and Jack is starting to worry that it mightnot just be the rats that are eating the rat poison..."Dead End inNorvelt" is Jack Gantos' hilarious blend of the entirely true andthe wildly fictional, from one of the most darkly amusingimaginations writing today.