Different Drummers
EXCERPTS
Hyperactive 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 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.
Lyle
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.

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.


















