The paper cowboy
(2014)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/FICTION/LEVINE,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2014]
DESCRIPTION
341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780399163289 (hardback), 039916328X (hardback), 9780142427156 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help
600L
Decoding demand: 93 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 87 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high)