Paperboy by Vince Vawter
A wonderful story! Would make a great read aloud! Paperboy definitely deserved the 2014 Newbery Honor Award. Paperboy is very different than your usual ‘different learner’ character. Maybe different learner isn’t the right word, but I don’t want to use ‘disabled’ either. The main character is an 11-year-old who stutters, sometimes very badly to the point of fainting to get a word out. The author wrote about himself and his struggles during the summer of 1959 in Memphis when he took over his best friend’s paper route. He really learns a lot about himself and his neighbors during the four weeks in July that he was the paperboy. It is a coming of age story and so much more.