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Vince Vawter

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Vince Vawter is the author of PAPERBOY, a 2014 Newbery Honor book, and COPYBOY, a sequel published Aug. 1, 2018. The final book of the PAPERBOY trilogy — MANBOY — is available now on Amazon. He lives with his wife near the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee on a small farm. Vawter spent 40 years in the newspaper business before retiring to write books.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 11,537 ratings · 1,848 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Paperboy 3.96 avg rating — 11,171 ratings — published 2013 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Copyboy 4.30 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manboy: Sequel to ' 'Paperboy' and 'Copyboy' 4.57 avg rating — 30 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El noi del diari by Vince Vawter (Goodreads Author), Mireia Alegre Clanxet (translator) 3.33 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El Chico del periódico 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stuttering Stoic: How an Ancient Philosophy Helped Me Find My Voice 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	W??rter auf Papier by Vince Vawter (2014-11-06) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Stuttering Stoic: How an Ancient Philosophy Helped Me Find My Voice

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Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

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Vince Vawter said: " LIVES OF THE NOVELIST by John Sutherland.
This is unlike any other novelist compilation book I have ever read. The short sketches of the writers always told me something I did not know about the authors, and Sutherland was brutally frank in his assess ...more "

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“Words in the air blow away as soon as you say them, but words on paper last forever”
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“Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?”
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“I contend that one is likely to find more truth in fiction. A good painting after all is more truthful than a photograph. Remember that, Young Messenger, for all your days.”
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What book should we read in September?

You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2014 Newbery contender and already published.

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

29 votes 32.2%

Paperboy by Vince Vawter

11 votes 12.2%

The Lost Kingdom by Matthew J. Kirby

9 votes 10.0%

The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail by Richard Peck

6 votes 6.7%

Paperboy

6 votes 6.7%

The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata

5 votes 5.6%

Counting by 7s (write-in)

5 votes 5.6%

Al Capone Does My Homework by Gennifer Choldenko

4 votes 4.4%

Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II by Martin W. Sandler

3 votes 3.3%

Paper Boy (write-in)

2 votes 2.2%

al capone does my homework (write-in)

2 votes 2.2%

Al Capone Does My Homework

2 votes 2.2%

paperboy (write-in)

2 votes 2.2%

Navigating Early (write-in)

2 votes 2.2%

Imprisoned

1 vote 1.1%

The thing about Lucky (write-in)

1 vote 1.1%

March by John Robert Lewis

0 votes 0.0%

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