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The Paper Cowboy

Amazon.com Price:  $6.34 (as of 05/05/2019 06:48 PST- Details)

Description

The newest powerful work of historical fiction from award-winning creator of THE LIONS OF LITTLE ROCK Kristin Levine.

Though he thinks of himself as a cowboy, Tommy is in reality a bully.  He’s at all times playing cruel jokes on classmates or stealing from the store. But Tommy has a reason: life at home is tough. His abusive mother is not well; in reality, she may be mentally ill, and his sister, Mary Lou, is in the hospital badly burned from doing a chore it used to be in reality Tommy’s turn to do. To make amends, Tommy takes over Mary Lou’s paper route. But the paper route also becomes the very best way for Tommy to investigate his neighbors after stumbling across a copy of The Daily Worker, a communist newspaper.

Tommy is shocked to be informed that one of his neighbors is usually a communist, and soon fear of a communist in this tight-knit community takes hold of everyone when Tommy uses the paper to frame a storeowner, Mr. McKenzie. As Mr. McKenzie’s business slowly falls apart and Mary Lou doesn’t seem to get any better, Tommy’s mother’s abuse gets worse causing Tommy’s bullying to spiral out of keep an eye on.


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