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Paperboy
Paperboy
Book Category:
Juvenile Fiction > General
Author:
VAWTER, VINCE
Editor::
Rebecca Weston
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780385742443
Price:
USD 16.99
Publication Year:
2013

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Penguin Random House.

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An 11-year-old boy living in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest fastball in town, but talking is a whole different ball game. He can barely say a word without stuttering, not even his own name. So when he takes over his best friend's paper route for the month of July, he knows he'll be forced to communicate with the different customers, including a housewife who drinks too much and a retired merchant marine who seems to know just about everything. The paper route poses challenges, but it's a run-in with the neighborhood junkman, a bully and thief, that stirs up real trouble--and puts the boy's life, as well as that of his family's devoted housekeeper, in danger.