Born to Dutch immigrants, Teddy Vandevis life began like any other young boy his age, but soon that life would have something more in store for him.

This poignant memoir follows Teddys story as he goes from playing pranks to working diligently, before he was a teenager, in both a grocery store and on an epic eight-mile paper route and doing the latter while enduring the harsh Canadian winters. He eventually saved enough money by age 9, to finance a trip for his father to visit Teddys dying grandmother back in Holland, when his father was low on money, thus setting the stage for the kind of...