The paper cowboy is set in the USA during the red scare.
Tommy likes teasing the kids at his school, but he does have a reason for being a bully. At home his abusive mother switches between moods. Sometimes she is kind and forgiving but sometimes she beats him. To make matters worse his sister, the one person who Tommy can rely on, is hospitalized when she gets badly burned. Tommy feels like it is his fault. To make up for it, he takes over her paper route. This becomes his chance to spy on his neighbors and try and figure out who received a communist paper. As fear of a communist takes hold over his neighborhood, Tommy tries to fix what he can fix in his life.
- Penny
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