The Paperboy
(2000)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Scholastic Inc., 2000
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (12 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781339054933 MWT17235858, 1339054930 17235858
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Forest Whitaker

Bestselling author Dav Pilkey's timeless story a boy, his dog, and the solitude they share before the world wakes up. In the still before dawn, while the rest of the world is sleeping, a boy and his dog leave the comfort of their warm bed to deliver newspapers. As the boy pedals his bike along a route he knows by heart, his dog runs by his side, both enjoying a world that, before sunrise, belongs only to them. When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books -- the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants. In the second grade, Dav's teacher ripped up his comics and told him he couldn't spend the rest of his life making silly books. Fortunately, Dav was not a very good listener

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