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

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.

A boyhood on a Vermont farm, the love between a father and son, and a coming to manhood, that is the most moving book of the year.

Assisted by her friends costumed as Samson and Gideon, frecklefaced Trig masquerades as the seductive Delilah for the church Halloween costume pageant.

"Thorndike large print"--Cover. In 1932 in Florida, despite his older brother's objections, fifteen-year-old Ladd finds himself, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, traveling alone more than 100 miles to bring back wild horses for the rodeo and for breeding.

The world of seven-year-old Robert, a farm boy in Vermont during the Depression, is populated by plain country people who "sparkle" despite their hardships.

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.

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.