When Zachary Beaver Came to Town won the 1999 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The coming-of-age story is about 13-year-old Toby Wilson, who experiences a difficult summer after his mother leaves and his best friend's brother dies in the Vietnam War. The story's events are set in motion when a circus sideshow arrives in town with the world's fattest boy, Zachary Beaver.
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