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.
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 Outsid...
This gentle story about a 12-year-old Vermont farm boy manages to evoke a sense of vanished America--when neighbors were neighborly, when food was home-cooked, and clothes and philosophy homespun (Newsweek). ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
This gentle story about a 12-year-old Vermont farm boy manages to evoke a sense of vanished America--when neighbors were neighborly, when food was hom...
