Peck, Robert Newton

Fifteen-year-old Muncie Bolt thinks he's lost Hem Lion's friendship forever when his father prosecutes Hem's father for operating a still in Liberty, Vermont during the days of prohibition.

A teenage boy risks his own popularity to give friendship and support to a retarded girl who is harassed by her classmates.

The adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.

In 1938, with the help of a lady doctor and an aging, card-cheating, dice-rolling horse thief, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo, and finds a family in the process.

To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.

Clean and tidy cousin Sexton lends his unusual talent to Soup and Rob as they engage in the town's goat-cart race.

Rob and Soup vie for the prize in their town's "Vermont Mardy Grah.".

Rob and Soup engineer an incredible appearance by Santa and his sleigh in their small Vermont town.

Soup's crazy plan to help his town's basketball team to victory includes constructing a musical instrument called a spitzentootle and snaring the evil Janice Riker in an unpleasant trap.