Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Day No Pigs Would Die is a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert Newton Peck about Rob Peck, a boy coming of age in rural Vermont on an impoverished farm. [1] Originally published in 1972, it is one of the first books to be categorized as young adult fiction, in addition to being Peck's first novel; the sequel, A Part of the Sky, was published in 1994.
While A Day No Pigs Would Die is certainly Peck's most famous work, and has been published in over 40 countries, it has also been the target of censorship due to some of its graphic descriptions. Rights to the book, as well as his novel Millie's Boy, were purchased by Twentieth Century Fox for film adaptations, but were never produced.
It is the first book in the series. Its main characters are two boys, Robert (the narrator) and his close friend Luther, better known as "Soup". It takes place during the 1930s in a small town in Vermont, and deals with the daily lives of the main characters. Soup is a well-meaning, but mischievous schemer, constantly coming up with elaborate ...
A Day No Pigs Would Die; The Discomfort of Evening; F. Farm Boy (novel) The Fox (novella) G. God's Little Acre; The Grapes of Wrath; M. A Map of the World;
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo: Jill Twiss: LGBTQIA+ content, political and religious viewpoints 2018 19 — — A Day No Pigs Would Die: Robert Newton Peck: References to animal slaughter and animal mating 1972 — 80 16 The Dead Zone: Stephen King: Obscene language 1979 — — 82 Deal with It! Esther Drill: Explicit sexual content and ...
A Day No Pigs Would Die – Robert Newton Peck; Stanfield Harvest – Richard Martin Stern; P.S. Your Not Listening – Eleanor Craig; Volume 93 – #2. A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax – Dorothy Gilman; The Camerons – Robert Crichton; The Japanese – Jack Seward; Green Darkness – Anya Seton; Volume 94 – #3. Sadie Shapiro's Knitting Book ...
The in-the-process-of-forming children's lit WikiProject has this on the table for whether it's a good or bad idea to distinguish between the two, but for now, the Child-lit and Child-book stubs are the best way to make sure people looking at the appropriate stub pools will see the book. However, none of this prevents you from mentioning (and ...
Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, [1] by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2] [3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.