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It's August 1984 and paper boy Christopher Stewart has gone missing. Hours later, twelve-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a secret. Crystal, Sammy's seventeen-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees an opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay,...
4) The paperboy
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A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds.
6) Newsies
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July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....
7) Newsies
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July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed find the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....
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"In the late 1800s, newsboys-or "newsies"-were a critical part of the newspaper industry. They bought stacks of papers from newspaper publishers and then sold them on city streets for a small profit. But in 1898, William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's New York World raised the cost of 100 papers by 10 cents. The price increase cut into the newsboys' profits, and by the summer of 1899 their frustration boiled over. They banded...
11) El jornalero
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Todos tenemos el derecho de triunfar en nuetras vidas, tenemos el derecho de trabajar duro para tener una vida llena de comodidades y aspiraciones. Pero en esta vida, nada es facil y desgraciadamente el mas fuerte vive del mas devil. Poreso tenemos que ser fuertes y firmes en nuestas decisiones, no detenermos ante nada, no temerle a los retos, solo es de seguir y seguir sin parar con coraje, furerza y fe. Ramiro es un muchacho asi fuerte y con decidiones...
12) Wackadoodle
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The paperboy Kurt walks in on his girlfriend cheating on him. Gry, his girlfriend convinces him that what he saw was all in his head, and sends him off to a shrink. Everything goes downhill from there.
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TJ visits the branch office of the Chicago newspaper the Defender in hope of getting a newspaper route, but he discovers he isn't the only boy who wants a job. They must enter a contest to enroll the most new subscribers to be able to win the job. On his way home he meets a stranger who gives him some good advice on how to win the contest.
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"Toby has a big new job and a big new problem. He can't wait to get started as Nice and Friendly Corners' newspaper delivery cactus, but there's a new bulldog in town, and he keeps getting in Toby's way. Bradley Bulldog's a bully! Will Toby stand up to him, or will he let Bradley keep pushing him around!"--Page [4] of cover.
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City of shadows: Big Tim Channing is a small-time racketeer who makes a living supplying old, out-of-date slot machines to businesses. He strikes up a prosperous partnership with newsboy Dan Mason when the precocious kid shows him how to corner the slot-machine racket and, at the same time, put his crooked competitors out of the running. But when Dan grows up and graduates from law school, it thrusts old Tim into a compromising position.
Crashout:...
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"A lonely newspaper boy discovers the wonders of friendship and music, learning that when you recognize what makes you truly happy, you're never really alone. Drawn from elements of the song, 'American Pie" and writer Don McLean's early life, this lushly illustrated fable weaves key elements from the iconic anthem to create a classic tale for generations to share. Don McLean was a newspaper boy in New Rochelle, NY - February, 1959, 'The Day The Music...