I regularly run across news stories about the decline of the newspaper industry, but I was shocked when I saw the newspaper stand at my local gas station. The papers are so puny now, printed on shrunken, skinny paper, a telltale sign of the Internet takeover of media. Sue Corbett’s The Last Newspaper Boy in America (Dutton, 2009) explores a similar theme. Protagonist Wil has been dying for his twelth birthday because he’ll finally be old enough to inherit the family...
