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Genre. Young adult literature. Robert Newton Peck (February 17, 1928 – June 23, 2020) was an American author who specialized in children's and young adult literature. His works include A Day No Pigs Would Die, Millie's Boy, and the Soup series.
Jun 23, 2020 · June 23, 2020. Genre. Historical Fiction, Young Adult. edit data. Robert Newton Peck is an American author of books for young adults. His titles include Soup and A Day No Pigs Would Die. He claims to have been born on February 17, 1928, in Vermont, but has refused to specify where.
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Robert Newton Peck has 79 books on Goodreads with 25104 ratings. Robert Newton Peck’s most popular book is A Day No Pigs Would Die.
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A Day No Pigs Would Die is a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert Newton Peck about Rob Peck, a boy coming of age in rural Vermont on an impoverished farm. Originally published in 1972 , it is one of the first books to be categorized as young adult fiction , in addition to being Peck's first novel; the sequel, A Part of the Sky , was published ...
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Jun 11, 2018 · Robert Newton Peck. Robert Peck (born 1928) won critical and popular acclaim for his first novel, A Day No Pigs Would Die (1973). Critics lauded its unsentimental rendering of farm life and the often brutal realities of the natural world, and the book is now a frequently studied text in junior high school classrooms.
Peck has written over fifty novels, six nonfiction works, numerous songs, and over one hundred poems. His most famous works are Soup and A Day No Pig Would Die. Books by Robert Newton Peck
Jan 1, 2001 · Robert Newton Peck. 3.58. 10,127 ratings981 reviews. Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood.
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