Роберт Ньютон Пек – лучшие книги

Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of
a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.

A Shaker youth living in a Vermont community grows to maturity during his thirteenth year

"Who will Robert vote for when his best friend, Soup, and his girlfriend are running for class president? Peck's folksy humor is at its best here: even readers who don't usually read this sort of book will enjoy Soup. Set in rural Vermont during the 1930's."--School Library Journey

Duke was a wild Canada gander who once lived at Little Lakes, the author's home in Wisconsin. He had come down with a flock that settled among the trout ponds. There he found a mate, but Duchess was pinioned and could not fly. On bright, clear days when the migrant flocks lifted, Duke longed to follow them down the sky. Many times he was tempted, and many times he left, but he always came back. For Canadas are monogamous. When a dog killed Duchess, the stricken Duke, with his goslings, was taken to a national wildlife refuge and turned loose among tens of thousands of his own kind. This much is true. How Duke led his young to Heron Marsh,…