Robert Newton Peck, Author . HarperCollins $16.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-06-623791-6
Set in Depression-era Florida, Peck's (A Day No Pigs Would Die) tangy tale stars Tullis Yoder, a 17-year-old orphaned rodeo worker. His new sweetheart, Clemsa Lou Wetmeadow, quickly sums up his personality: "Although I have known you less...
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Robert Newton Peck, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (277p) ISBN 978-0-06-441075-5
Set in Depression-era Florida, this novel tells the story of a 17-year-old orphaned rodeo worker whose heart yearns for a home, a girl to love and glory as a bull rider. According to PW, he "eventually finds it all and endears himself to the...
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Robert Newton Peck, Author . Random $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-82801-0
A respect for humanity shines through Peck's (A Day No Pigs Would Die
) unique autobiography, related in a colloquial, conversational style. Rather than presenting a chronicle of his life in a conventional fashion, the author instead pens a...
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Robert Newton Peck, Author Walker & Company $16.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1016-1
Hallapoosa is an impoverished southern Florida town where 12-year-old Thane MacHugh and his sister Alma Lee, seven, newly orphaned, are sent in 1931 to live with their father's elderly brother Hiram, a gentlemanly bachelor who is also the town's...
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Robert Newton Peck, Author Random House (NY) $15.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-394-56980-2
In this heart-warming coming-of-age tale set on a Florida ranch during the early 1930s, Peck ( A Day No Pigs Would Die ) shows how a teenager's struggles with nature, family tragedy, and a difficult older brother initiate him into manhood....
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Robert Newton Peck, Author Walker & Company $16.95 (153p) ISBN 978-0-8027-6856-8
In 1927, Jailtown, Fla., is not the best place for an 11-year-old. Arly Poole, the son of a cucumber picker who looks ``like he lost every fight in his life . . . and never knowed shade.'' has little to look forward to. When Arly reaches working age,
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Robert Newton Peck, Author Random House Children's Books $5.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-679-88696-9
Published on the 25th anniversary of A Day No Pigs Would Die, this sequel returns to the Depression era and a Shaker way of life on a Vermont farm. With his father dead, Robert is now in charge and may have to sell the farm in order to survive. Ages
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Robert Newton Peck, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-028867-9
Only the most ardent of baseball fans will likely cotton to this preachy, maudlin effort from the author of The Day No Pigs Would Die. When the rest of his immediate family dies in a plane accident, teenager Tate Stonemason survives. His leg...
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Robert Newton Peck, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-028168-7
Mighty flavorsome language just about disguises a predictable plot in this cowboy tale about the youngest son of a domineering Florida rancher who reaches manhood during an arduous cattle drive. Titus, 16, makes an energetic narrator, speaking in a...
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Robert Newton Peck, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $17 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-89257-1
In 1931, in the Florida backwoods, an illiterate, dirt-poor family suffers under the rule of an abusive father, a drunk named Velmer Tharp. Yoolee, the protagonist, is 11 going on 30. He strives to protect his free-spoken younger sister and his worn-
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Robert Newton Peck, Author HarperCollins $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-052974-1
Robert Newton Peck takes readers back to the Depression-era setting of his Horse Thief in Bro. When young Tugwell Dockery is orphaned after a train hits his parents' car and kills them, his aunt Lulu takes him in while his incarcerated brother,...
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Robert Newton Peck, Author, Charles Robinson, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (123p) ISBN 978-0-440-50062-9
This new entry in the long-running, popular Soup series is fast-moving but forced. Although all the previous stories featuring Robert Newton and his friend Soup were firmly grounded in place and time (Vermont in the '40s), this one telescopes the '40
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Robert Newton Peck, Author, Ashbel Green, Editor Knopf Publishing Group $18 (163p) ISBN 978-0-679-43277-7
Twenty-two years have passed since the publication of the popular A Day No Pigs Would Die, but scarcely a year has gone by in the life of Robert Peck, the Vermont farm boy whose story is continued here. The sequel reprises the rural locale and...
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