Peck, Robert Newton

In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly, horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo and finds a family in the process.

An autobiographical novel in which the author describes his adventures with his friend, Soup, while growing up in Vermont in the 1920s.

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.

Follows the activities and adventures of a wild city cat from her birth until she mates and produces a litter of her own.

Author Robert Newton Peck offers emerging writers expert advice on how to start building their own books, with tips for pacing a story, writing flowing dialogue, creating realistic characters, and molding a storyline.

A visit from Uncle Virus and his motorcycle gang stimulates Soup to new and ingenious schemes, involving a cache of moonshine, a motorcycle competition, and revenge on the dreaded Janice Riker.

In Canada in 1754, a sixteen-year-old orphan boy faces hardship and danger during the French and Indian War.