A Day No Pigs Would Die
Title | A Day No Pigs Would Die PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Newton Peck |
Publisher | Laurel Leaf |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2010-01-13 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0307574512 |
Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.
A Part of the Sky
Title | A Part of the Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Newton Peck |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 173 |
Release | 2011-08-31 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0307574369 |
In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Robert Newton Peck's bestselling classic, A Day No Pigs Would Die, here is the eagerly anticipated sequel. This must for schools, libraries, and summer reading lists is now available for the first time in paperback. Times are difficult during the Great Depression, and thirteen-year-old Rob Peck must struggle to keep his family together after the death of his father. Disaster after disaster strikes and the family is forced to sell their farm. Relying solely on their strong Shaker faith and close family ties, the Pecks finally prevail and young Rob learns that true wealth extends beyond money and that real values are priceless.
A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert N. Peck
Title | A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert N. Peck PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Lovejoy Dennis |
Publisher | Novel Units, Incorporated |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
Activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the readingof A day no pigs would die.
Weeds in Bloom
Title | Weeds in Bloom PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Newton Peck |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2009-07-08 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0307549119 |
With over 65 books published, including the breathtaking (and somewhat autobiographical) A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Newton Peck has enjoyed an illustrious writing career. Now, in an autobiography as unique as he is, Peck tells his story through the people in his life. From his roots as a poor Vermont farmer’s son to his years as a soldier in World War II, from his time slogging away in a paper mill to his semi-retirement in Florida, Peck shows us people who too often go unseen and unheard–the country’s poor and uneducated. “For decades, I’ve examined the autobiographies of my fellow authors. Bah! Many could have been titled And Then I Wrote . . . So instead of my life and lit, here is the unusual, a tarnished treasury of plain people who enriched me, taught me virtues, and helped me hold a mite of manhood. They’re not fancy folk, so please expect no long-stemmed roses from a florist. They are, instead, the unarranged flora that I’ve handpicked from God’s greenhouse . . . weeds in bloom.” From the Hardcover edition.
Cowboy Ghost
Title | Cowboy Ghost PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Newton Peck |
Publisher | HarperTeen |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2000-05-31 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780064472289 |
Sixteen-year-old Tee sets off on a grueling cattle drive up through the Florida wilderness of the 1920s in order to prove to his father that he is just as talented a rider as his older brother Micah. Reprint.
Horse Thief
Title | Horse Thief PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Newton Peck |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2003-06-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780064410755 |
In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly, horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo and finds a family in the process.
Extra Innings
Title | Extra Innings PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Newton Peck |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 229 |
Release | 2003-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0064472299 |
After an airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate finds unexpected solace in the stories of his great-aunt Vidalia's childhood travels with a Depression-era Negro League baseball team.