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A Day No Pigs Would Die

By Robert Newton Peck

By Robert Newton Peck

By Robert Newton Peck

By Robert Newton Peck

By Robert Newton Peck
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Sep 20, 1994 | ISBN 9780679853060 | Young Adult

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    About A Day No Pigs Would Die

    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.

    About A Day No Pigs Would Die

    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.

    About A Day No Pigs Would Die

    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.

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    Robert Newton Peck comes from generations of Yankee farmers. Like the Vermont folk he writes about in his novel, A Part of the Sky, he was raised as a boy in the Shaker Way, which endured even after the sect itself… More about Robert Newton Peck

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    Product Details

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $7.99
    Published by Laurel Leaf
    Sep 20, 1994 | 176 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780679853060

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Laurel Leaf
    Jan 13, 2010 | 176 Pages | Young Adult | ISBN 9780307574510

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues | Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $14.00
    Published by Listening Library
    Jan 26, 2010 | 240 Minutes | Young Adult | ISBN 9780307245861

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    Praise

    “Reading this book is like sipping hot cider in front of a crackling potbellied stove. Every page is suffused with wit and charm and glowing with warmth.”–Newsweek

    “A lovely book. . . . Honest, moving, homely in the warm and simple sense of the word. . . . It is small, accepting and loving and it succeeds perfectly.”–Boston Globe

    “You’ll find yourself caught up in the novel’s emotion from the very opening scene. . . . Love suffuses every page.”–The New York Times

    "With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of any age."–School Library Journal.

    Awards

    ALA Best Books for Young Adults WINNER 1973

    Colorado Children’s Book Award WINNER 1972

    Library of Congress Children’s Books of the Year WINNER 1973

    School Library Journal Best Book of the Year WINNER 1973

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