A Day No Pigs Would Die

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Random House Children's Books, Jan 13, 2010 - Young Adult Fiction - 176 pages
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.
 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
9
Section 3
18
Section 4
28
Section 5
40
Section 6
50
Section 7
61
Section 8
69
Section 9
89
Section 10
101
Section 11
133
Section 12
141
Section 13
151
Section 14
153
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Robert Newton Peck comes from generations of Yankee farmers. Like the Vermont folk he writes about in his novel, he was raised as a boy in the Shaker Way, which endured even after the sect itself had died out. Its view of life is embodied in the character of his young protagonist's father, who believed that a faith is more blessed when put to use than when put to word: "A man's worship counts for naught, unless his dog and cat are the better for it."

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