Paperboy is the story of an eleven year old boy with a severe stutter in the summer of 1959. When he takes over his friend's paper route for four weeks, the boy (whose name we don't learn until the final pages of the novel) meets several new people who alter his view of the world. He also tangles with a local trouble-maker. While Paperboy doesn't lead us to any major conclusions, apart from the value of each person, it does ask us to continue to learn and to think. To be discerning. And that's a very valuable lesson in and of itself.
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