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The Yearling definetly belongs on the classics list.
The reader is transported about 100 years into the past. When times were tough and everyone poor. Most survive on crops and livestock. Thus depending on Mother Nature to cooperate. A bad year equals winter hunger.
Young Jody is a boy who by the end of the book has grown into a man. Not by size but by maturity. When his father is stricken down, Jody must step in and help his mother to run the farm. Gone were his lazy days of childhood play. Tho ...more
The reader is transported about 100 years into the past. When times were tough and everyone poor. Most survive on crops and livestock. Thus depending on Mother Nature to cooperate. A bad year equals winter hunger.
Young Jody is a boy who by the end of the book has grown into a man. Not by size but by maturity. When his father is stricken down, Jody must step in and help his mother to run the farm. Gone were his lazy days of childhood play. Tho ...more
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