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Paperboy  
Jan. 9, 2013
Author:  Vince Vawter
Category:  Children's: Middle grade
Description:  Vince Vawter's PAPERBOY is the story of a boy with a debilitating stutter forced to find ways to communicate against a backdrop of racial bigotry in the summer of 1959 in Memphis. When the 13-year-old stutterer, who can't say his own name, takes over his best friend's newspaper route for a month, he encounters a fleet of life-spinning characters: an alcoholic housewife who attempts to seduce him, a junkman who steals from him, and a kindly Merchant Marine who seems to have all the answers to the boy's unending questions. Accompanying him on his month-long journey is his protector Mam, the family's black housekeeper, who saves the boy from being murdered in the book's climax.
Rights available:  Translation, enhanced ebook, paper products, motion picture, television, radio, lyric, dramatic, merchandising and commercial rights
Rights already sold:  World English and audio to Random House/Delacorte
Contact:  Anna Olswanger
Liza Dawson Associates
aolswanger@lizadawsonassociates.com
phone: 212-465-9077
350 7th Avenue, Suite 2003, New York, NY 10001
Item number:  8676
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