Different Drummers


EXCERPTS

 


Lyle Hatcher, cub scoutHyperactive Lyle on a search for firewood

CHAPTER ONE ~ FALLING ~ page 6 CHAPTER ONE ~ FALLING ~ page 6 (PDF view)

Lyle tries to patch things up with his friends and with the scoutmaster by devising an unusual method to supply firewood for the entire 221 Timberwolves Cub Scout Troop. The results are unexpected.


David in his wheelchairDavid falls

CHAPTER ONE ~ FALLING ~ page 10 (PDF view)

Davids legs give out. He cant get up and he realizes he'll be forced
to use a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.

 
Lyle grapples with the issue of God

CHAPTER THREE ~ THE FEELING ~ page 35  (PDF view)

David tells Lyle that God that their fourth grade teacher is about to die and claims that he knows this because God told him.


Hazel Hatcher and her TVLyle and the Jack LaLanne Show

CHAPTER FOUR ~ THE WEASEL ~ page 40 (PDF view)

Lyle's mom exercises every morning with the Jack Lalanne show.
Lyle watches the show before he leaves for school and uses quotes from Jack Lalanne to convince David that he can get him out of his wheelchair and teach him to run.

Dorothy O'Donnell in her office at Linwood Elementary
Miss ODonnell thinks Lyle should be on Ritalin

CHAPTER FOURTEEN ~ DILEMMA ~ page 159 (PDF view)

Miss O'Donnell, the principal of Linwood Elementary, meets with Lyle's mother to discuss her son's behavior in school.