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1) Paperboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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
2) Paperboy
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
In Cincinnati in 1927, paperboy Willie Brinkman tries to sell extras on the Dempsey-Tunney boxing match in his workingman's neighborhood
3) Paperboy
Author
Language
English
Description
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. And come rain or shine - or bombs and mortar - he will deliver...
Paperboy lives in Upper Shankill, Belfast, in the heart of the conflict between Loyalists and Republicans. Bombings are on the evening news, rubble lies where buildings once stood,...
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Language
English
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Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished.”—The New York Times Book Review
The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is tried, sentenced, and set to fry....
“An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished.”—The New York Times Book Review
The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is tried, sentenced, and set to fry....
5) The paperboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds
Author
Language
English
Description
EQUAL PARTS INSPIRATIONAL RAGS TO RICHES STORY ANDENLIGHTENING NARRATIVE ON CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
Raised by a single mother in affluent Fairfield County, Connecticut, Dylan Tomassi grew up poor. As a boy he is befriended by a reclusive widow he meets on his paper route. She mentors him with sage advice on matters facing a young man growing up without a father. She never pays for her newspapers, and he never asks for the money because of all the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ted was going to have to find the money. 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 news agency to get a Women's Weekly for a woman in the Ladies' lounge of Brown's Hotel. In The Paperboy's War the well-known outback folklorist, singer, songwriter, historian, and television presenter recalls his early days, his priestly...
Author
Language
English
Description
A young man learns that there is more to being successful than the bottom line.A Paperboy's Fable is a concise, entertaining fable that makes revolutionary points using age old principles. Whether someone is opening a lemonade stand or leading a startup software company, the 11 Principles of Success make A Paperboy's Fable a timeless tale that is as fresh as it is universal.A Paperboy's Fable also features interviews with many professors, entrepreneurs,...
9) The Paperboy
Author
Language
English
Description
A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.
Author
Language
English
Description
I did not have time to read this, but once I started, I could not stop. I read until 11 p.m. and then woke up at 2:30 a.m. and finished at dawn, January 6, 2010.
This account of life in a southern hamlet, just before the horrific experience of Vietnam ended Americas last era of innocence, would be of interest to any student of sociology. But, in the case of this reader, its magnetism springs from the fact that I knew nearly everyone in the Perk Paperboy...
Author
Language
English
Description
It was 1970, and indeed there was "bad news on the doorstep". I was freezing to death! Whoever said there was money in being a paperboy had certainly misled me!
My misadventures delivering newspapers on Long Island in the early 70's to a thankless, cruel world. Look for it only in the history books, for news delivery is now a thing of the past.
Author
Language
English
Description
Shankill Road, Belfast, 1977. The King is dead and even Big Duff, the hardest loyalist hard man on the whole estate has been seen to shed a tear. Tony Macaulay has just been appointed breadboy in the last Ormo Mini Shop in the world, a promotion from his previous role as a paperboy. The Bee Gees fill the airwaves, there's Smash and fishfingers on the table for tea, and Tony's love of peace and pets is soon rivaled by his interest in parallel universes...
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[released 2008], ©2007
Language
English
Description
A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini plus three other stories about things going on around town
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