num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: Paperboy
publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers