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An American classic - and Pulitzer Prize-winning story - that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet.No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.
About the Author
People know American writer for her novel This author lived in rural Florida with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, , about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same title, . The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.
