Newbery medal judges called the book "achingly funny" and one British reviewer called it "rib-splitting". In Britain, where it was published by the Transworld Publishers imprint Corgi Books, it was one of eight books on the longlist for the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. It also won the annual Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The American Library Association awarded Gantos and Dead End the 2012 Newbery Medal, honoring the book as the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". According to one reviewer, the "real hero" is "his home town and its values", a "defiantly political" message. It features a boy named Jack Gantos and is based in the author's hometown, Norvelt, Pennsylvania. Dead End in Norvelt is an autobiographical novel by the American author Jack Gantos, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2011.
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