Isabelle The Itch: The Isabelle Series, Book One - Plot & Excerpts
Halfway down the block, Philip caught up with her. “Hey, I want to take you around on my route now,” he said, slamming on his brakes and kicking up a flurry of dust. “So’s you’ll know what to do Monday.” “What’s to know? All I need is a list of your customers and where they live,” Isabelle said. “It’s not that simple,” Philip said, frowning. “A lot of people think all a paper boy does is throw the paper at the house and leave. People want their paper put a certain place. Some of them are very particular. A lot of them are crabs. You gotta use psychology. Just don’t think it’s a cinch, because it isn’t.” He took out his route book. “We start on Red Barn Lane with Mrs. Stern,” he said. “She gives you cookies and she paints.” “Like Grandma Moses?” Isabelle asked. “I saw this neat thing on television about her. She was this really old lady and she started to paint cows and chickens and farms and everything and she sold her pictures for a pile of dough and she never even had a lesson,”
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