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Shiloh is a Newbery Medal-winning children's novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor published in 1991. The 65th book by Naylor, it is the first in a quartet about a young boy and the title character, an abused dog. Naylor decided to write Shiloh after an emotionally taxing experience in West Virginia where she encountered an abused dog.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction.Naylor is best known for her children's-novel quartet Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner) and for her "Alice" book series, one of the most frequently challenged books of the last decade.
After his theft is discovered, Marty discovers Judd shooting a deer out of season and blackmails him into selling Shiloh to him. Because he lacks the money to buy Shiloh, Marty resolutely works for Judd doing numerous chores. Primarily a Bildungsroman and adventure novel, the novel depicts the emotional tribulations and maturing of an 11-year ...
She recalls how Isabel said she found comfort in reading stories about other people with similar struggles. At the time, Nugent thought her daughter meant fiction; now, she thinks Isabel may have ...
The 9/11 terrorist attacks not only killed 3,000 innocent people in New York and Washington, D.C., but also shattered the post-Cold War peace Americans had become accustomed to during the 1990s.
Shiloh, a 1996 family movie based on the Naylor novel (see below) Shiloh, a chapter of The Civil War by Ken Burns; Craig Shilo, a character in the television series Blue Mountain State; Shiloh, the capital city in Kings (American TV series) Shiloh Ranch, the setting for the television series The Virginian
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Shiloh: A Novel is a historical novel set during the American Civil War, written in 1952 by Shelby Foote. [1] It employs the first-person perspectives of several protagonists, Union and Confederate, to give a moment-by-moment depiction of the 1862 Battle of Shiloh .