A Day No Pigs Would Die
A Day No Pigs Would Die

Author: Robert Newton Peck

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 2010-01-13

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0307574512

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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 Year Down Yonder
A Year Down Yonder

Author: Richard Peck

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-12-30

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1440672725

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A Newbery Medal Winner Richard Peck's Newbery Medal-winning sequel to A Long Way from Chicago Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its place among the classics of children's literature. "Hilarious and poignant." —Publishers Weekly, starred review A Newbery Medal Winner A New York Times Bestseller An ALA Notable Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A Booklist Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

People of the Lie
People of the Lie

Author: Morgan Scott Peck

Publisher: Touchstone

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780671528164

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"A Touchstone book." Includes bibliographical references.

The Teacher's Funeral
The Teacher's Funeral

Author: Richard Peck

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-11-21

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780142405079

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If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," begins Richard Peck's latest novel, a book full of his signature wit and sass. Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he's raring to leave his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of the Dakotas. To him, school has been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, they'll shut the school down entirely and leave him free to roam. No such luck. Russell has a particularly eventful season of schooling ahead of him, led by a teacher he never could have predicted-perhaps the only teacher equipped to control the likes of him: his sister Tansy. Despite stolen supplies, a privy fire, and more than any classroom's share of snakes, Tansy will manage to keep that school alive and maybe, just maybe, set her brother on a new, wiser course.