When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
As the boy pedals his bike along a route he knows by heart, his dog runs by his side, both enjoying a world that, before sunrise, belongs only to them.Acclaimed author and artist Dav Pilkey celebrates the beauty found in silence and the ...
There is not a spare word in this searing tale. . . . A bravura performance by one of America’s most original and elegiac voices.”—People “Hip, hard-boiled and filled with memorable eccentrics . . .
A Paperboy's Fable also features interviews with many professors, entrepreneurs, CEO's and General David Petraeus.
Maintaining a Schwinn revealed volumes about mechanics. Reading Paperboy, we also learn about the hazing rituals of its namesakes, the aesthetics of kitchen appliances, and the delicate art of penny-pitching.
Now a few years older and working as a newspaper copyboy, Victor plans to spread Mr. Spiro_s ashes at the mouth of the Mississippi River as the former merchant marine wished. But the journey will not be a simple one.
It's Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he's got a new job. He's going to be a paperboy.
All the regular jobs — bag boy, movie usher, and landscaper — are taken, but one day during his morning jog before school, Ty hears the local paperboy grumbling on his cell phone about quitting. He asks the paperboy how much he makes ...
He got it as a paperboy, shouting 'Herooda paper!' on street corners. Jumping on and off the No. 20 tram rattling out of the city of Melbourne into Coburg. Ducking back to the newsagency to get a Women's Weekly for a woman in the ...
An adventurous book of a super-hero (Paperboy) written for children by a child.
Mr. Hall and Tomas looked at each other. Thank Goodness. Naomi pecked on he door. “Newton, ya'll ready for some coffee and pie?” She served Newton, Mr. Hall, then Tomas, and then Flemon and Orton. In a few minutes she was back pickin' ...