The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleiscman - Newbery Award Winner

This Newbery winning novel is about an orphan named Jemmy. As the "whipping boy," Jemmy must take the beatings for the royal heir, Prince "Brat". Jemmy plans to run away from the castle, but Prince "Brat" beats him to it and makes Jemmy tag along. Jemmy then discovers he is charged with the Prince's abduction. What will happen to Jemmy? I did not really enjoy this book or the purpose and meaning of the book. Prince "Brat" was really spoiled and used to do terrible things around the castle because he wanted Jemmy to whine or cry when he got whipped. Then, once they ran away, they became friends? Yet, I did like that the characters were totally opposite of what they seemed they would be. For instance, Jemmy could read and write, where the prince could not, also the bear in the story was nice, not mean. Weird!