Apologise Later
Apologise Later

Author: Mark Penrose

Publisher:

Published: 2016-03-16

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781291638721

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The first ever Biography of Robert Newton. From an idyll Cornish childhood to a desperate death amidst the Hollywood elite. Cowboy, beach-bum; loaded and flat broke. He survived the bloodiest naval arena in the second world war; married four times he failed as a husband and a father. He starred in dozens of films, dozens of plays. Newton was more than an actor; yet he is the quintessential pirate, Disney's 'Long John Silver', is the brutal Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist. Farmer, tax exile, he ran his own theatre and loved Rolls Royces. In America and Australia. Generous, gregarious, needful, lost, he swept through life and left people reeling in his wake. Olivier, Burton, Coward, Wayne. Laughing, infected with his joyous lust for life. He hid discretion under a coat of folly; but he was the man who would tell you, tell everybody, loudly, that the King was naked...

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.

Runner
Runner

Author: Robert Newton

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0375837442

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In Richmond, Australia, in 1919, fifteen-year-old Charlie Feehan becomes an errand boy for a notorious mobster, hoping that his ability to run will help him, his widowed mother, and his baby brother to escape poverty.

A Part of the Sky
A Part of the Sky

Author: Robert Newton Peck

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 0307574369

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In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Robert Newton Peck's bestselling classic, A Day No Pigs Would Die, here is the eagerly anticipated sequel. This must for schools, libraries, and summer reading lists is now available for the first time in paperback. Times are difficult during the Great Depression, and thirteen-year-old Rob Peck must struggle to keep his family together after the death of his father. Disaster after disaster strikes and the family is forced to sell their farm. Relying solely on their strong Shaker faith and close family ties, the Pecks finally prevail and young Rob learns that true wealth extends beyond money and that real values are priceless.

Extra Innings
Extra Innings

Author: Robert Newton Peck

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2003-03

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0064472299

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After an airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate finds unexpected solace in the stories of his great-aunt Vidalia's childhood travels with a Depression-era Negro League baseball team.

Arly
Arly

Author: Robert Newton Peck

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-03-18

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 080273555X

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Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town.

When We Were Two
When We Were Two

Author: Robert Newton

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 2011-09-28

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1742534082

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Dan had to go, He felt he had no choice, but leaving home was never going to be easy . . . Dan and his brother Eddie take off for the coast, in search of their lost mother, in search of a better life . . . but it's a long road they face and Dan must use all his wits to get them there in one piece. When they are taken under the wings of a group of would-be soldiers marching over the mountains to join up for the Great War, Dan and Eddie's journey becomes something quite unexpected. The experiences they share will shape their future beyond recognition. This extraordinary rite of passage is a powerful, heart-rending story – Robert Newton at his very best.

Mr Romanov's Garden in the Sky
Mr Romanov's Garden in the Sky

Author: Robert Newton

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 2017-02-27

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1760142972

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Living in the commission, Lexie is left to fend for herself. Her mother is mostly absent, out searching for something to help her forget the tragic death of Lexie’s dad. But then, after witnessing the aftermath of a shocking incident, Lexie finds solace in the most unlikely of places – in a troubled old man called the Creeper. A chance, life-saving encounter on the commission’s roof seeds a friendship between the two and when they enlist the help of Lexie’s friend Davey, the three set off on an epic journey; one that will change their lives and the lives of those around them.