The Horn Book Magazine, November 1st, 1999
(*) Kimberly Willis Holt When Zachary Beaver Came to Town 231 pp. Holt 10/99 ISBN 0-8050-6116-9 16.95 (Intermediate, Young Adult) Toby Wilson is a sensitive thirteen-year-old boy growing up in Antler, Texas, a town so small that Toby and his best friend Cal can view its limits from the flat-topped roof of the Bowl-a-Rama; a town where people fall prey to believing that the real world lies beyond Antler--that "there's a whole world out there waiting in the back of magazines." (Which is why Toby's mother is off in Nashville chasing her dream of becoming the next Tammy Wynette.) Holt wastes no t...
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