| Bright Sky Press (2008) | | | | Then he is taken to an institution by his mother who is |
| ISBN 9781933979144 | | | | leaving to Europe to marry her boyfriend. |
| To me, "Window Boy" was a sad, but strangely | | | | Sam starts to slowly fade away when the news |
| uplifting, novel in hectic times. Sam Davis is a | | | | reporter comes to take his picture and write an article |
| twelve-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. His father has | | | | about him. The essay he had written long ago had |
| abandoned him; his mother is too absorbed with her | | | | won him the contest and $1,000. Finally, his mother, |
| new boyfriend to notice Sam most of the time. In all | | | | betrayed and deceived by the man she was about to |
| this, his three beams of light are his prim, if talkative | | | | marry, comes back and saves him. Later Sam goes |
| nurse, Miss Perkins, the imaginary voice of Winston | | | | on to become a basketball coach to the team he |
| "Winnie" Churchill, and the basketball court almost in his | | | | helped become tournament champs. |
| backyard. | | | | No words I could say or write could convey the impact |
| Sam gets the chance to go to school with the other | | | | of the book on me. As a librarian's assistant, I had read |
| children. At first it is a disaster but Winnie tells Sam to | | | | to special-need children and this book made me feel |
| keep a stiff upper lip. Soon, as his teacher starts to | | | | incredible guilt and anger at myself for the revulsion I |
| understand him, Sam writes an essay on his hero, | | | | felt at the sight of some of them. "Window Boy" by |
| Winston Churchill, for a contest. On his twentieth and | | | | Andrea White is meant for kids and teenagers, but I |
| last day of school, he gets out the words to tell the | | | | think adults could benefit just as greatly from it. I give a |
| captain of the basketball team to appoint Micky | | | | high, high recommendation to someone looking for a |
| Kostov, a Russian boy no one likes, as point guard. | | | | break from action/horror/fantasy. |