For Toby Wilson, life in tiny Granger, Texas, is alternately as dull as dust or as melodramatic as a soap opera. Nothing much happens in the tumbleweed burg that would excite the imagination of a ...

Kimberly Willis Holt’s 1999 National Book Award-winning novel, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, follows a boy named Toby in the small town of Antler, Tex., during one life-changing summer in 1971, ...

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The coming-of-age tropes fly fast and furious in this gentle but utterly unremarkable youth yarn based on the book by Kimberly Willis Holt. It’s all about an eventful summer in the life of 12-year-old ...