A review by pkrawr
From Norvelt to Nowhere by Jack Gantos

2.0

A bizarre bit of lunacy that somehow manages to consistently fall short of being funny. I think this book fell into the sequel trap of trying to hard and failing, therefore managing to undermine fond memories of the original. Gantos takes too far a leap into the fictional, making his cast of memorable characters from Dead End in Norvelt behave in ways that no one, regardless of the circumstances, would ever do. It makes all of them unsympathetic, and the increasingly unbelievable plot careens along like an inevitable train wreck. One additional star granted for interesting history tidbits sprinkled throughout.