Peck, Robert Newton

A freak snowstorm almost keeps Rob and his best friend Soup from celebrating Soup's ninth birthday, but the boys' ingenuity makes the party a success.

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

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

Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a cattle ranch in Florida in the first part of the 1900s has made Titus very close to his older brother, Micah, and determined to make Micah proud of him when the two go on their first cattle drive together.

Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather's Florida cattle ranch.

Thirteen-year-old Rob Peck is left to take charge of his mother, aunt, and few animals on a hardscrabble five-acre Vermont farm.

Using prose and poetry, the author reminisces about his childhood on a Vermont farm.

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

Anticipating the celebration of Miss Kelly Day in honor of the teacher of their one-room school in Learning, Vermont, Soup and Rob save the day from certain catastrophe at the hands of Dr. Elsa Pinkerton Uppit.