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Sep 2011, 352 pages
Paperback:
May 2013, 368 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Jo Perry
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Finally, one of Pizarro's own men sneaked up and
stabbed him to death because he thought Pizarro was
cheating him out of his share of gold for helping to
conquer the Incas. Gold had driven the conquistadors
crazy and they ended up killing themselves and all of
those poor Incas. It was a really tragic story. I just
wished I had been with Atahualpa and his army when
the conquistadors fired off that blunderbuss. I could
have told Atahualpa that I had fired off a rifle too and
that it was scary, but not to panic. Then we could have
ordered the Inca army to capture the gold-crazed conquistadors
and saved the Inca civilization, and history
would have been different. If only...
Excerpted from Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos. Copyright © 2011 by Jack Gantos. Excerpted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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