A Day No Pigs Would Die | 
I went from one semi-autobiographical middle grade novel to another. This has a Charlotte's Web feel but it's a bit more coarse, as the author was truly a farmer's son.
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I went from one semi-autobiographical middle grade novel to another. This has a Charlotte's Web feel but it's a bit more coarse, as the author was truly a farmer's son.
pickA treasure of a book!! The 1920‘s in Vermont, a Shaker family, you are immersed in the hard scrabble business of farming. Always just keeping hunger and other calamity from drowning them, they stand with their values and earnest hard work to carry them. I researched and the act of weaseling a dog is still a practice. I couldn‘t confirm pulling a goiter out of a cow‘s mouth. As for nuts from a squirrel belly? Hmm... do know I cried at the end!
Remedy! There was a word that struck a #fever. Mama had give me a spoonful of remedy for one thing or another almost every winter and spring. It made you go to the backhouse a lot. Morning, noon, and night. Sometimes twice each, and it was no picnic to have your butt burn like Hellfire.
#QuotsyApr19
I can't believe I've never read this! Snagged it at the library for a DIME, which I didn't have after giving a lady my last $3 to pay her fine so she could take out books for her daughter. Luckily my friend was at checkout and said she'd spot me. I told her when ten cents will really matter to her, I'm good for it. #takethatkarma #allthewaytothebank #gooddeeddone
#MarchIntoReading #SetInThe1920s I have had this book for 35 years. It is one of the RIF (Reading is Fundamental) books I picked up in elementary school and I still have it! #RIF Perfect for March #nationalreadingmonth rif.org
Robert Newton Peck wrote this book as well: FAWN.
#ImmigrantStories for #Booktober. Set during the French and Indian War, Fawn's mother was Iroquois, and his father is a French Jesuit Priest. Beautifully written coming of age story about Fawn's journey to becoming a man in a quickly changing landscape and struggling with his own identity as well.
pick😔😧😢😥😪😓😭 👈🏼 all of the emotions I have whenever I read this classic American Bildungsroman. Short enough to read in one day. A day when pigs might not die - but you will cry!
