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A Day no pigs would die

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--Novelist.

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  • "Nae maŭm ŭi han chogak"
  • "내마음의한조각"
  • "A day no pigs would die"

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  • "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--Novelist."@en
  • "Read by Robert Newton Peck the tape only covers the first four chapters."
  • "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.""@en
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "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. Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood. In the daily round of his thirteenth year, as the seasons turn and the farm is tended, the boy -- whose time is the only-yesterday of Calvin Coolidge, whose people are the Plain People living without "frills" in the Shaker Way -- becomes a man. That is all, and it is everything. The boy is mauled by Apron, the neighbor's ailing cow whom he helps, alone, to give birth. The grateful farmer brings him a gift -- a newborn pig. His father at first demurs ("We thank you, Brother Tanner," said Papa, "but it's not the Shaker Way to take frills for being neighborly. All that Robert done was what any farmer would do for another") but is persuaded. Rob keeps the pig, names her, and gives her his devotion ... He wrestles with grammar in the schoolhouse. He hears rumors of sin. He is taken -- at last -- to the Rutland Fair. He broadens his heart to make room even for Baptists. And when his father, who can neither read nor cipher, whose hands are bloodied by his trade, whose wisdom and mastery of country things are bred in the bone, entrusts Rob with his final secret, the boy makes the sacrifice that completes his passage into manhood. All is told with quiet humor and simplicity. Here are lives lived by earthy reason -- in a novel that, like a hoedown country fiddler's tune, rings at the same time with both poignancy and cheer."@en
  • "Maturity comes early to a 13-year-old Vermont farm boy who learns one must do what has to be done, especially regarding his pet pig, unable to produce a litter."
  • ""We're not rich, Papa." "Yes we are, boy. We have one another to fend to, and this land to tend." When young Rob Peck saves a neighbor's cow, the neighbor gives him a pig as a reward. Pinky is Rob's constant companion as he juggles backbreaking farm work with the schooling that is so important to his father. Pinky is a pet and a friend, but on a farm, every animal must have its use. And on a farm, even a boy must sometimes be a man. Will the support of a loving family and the plainspoken Shaker teachings of his father, Haven, be enough to see Rob through on the day no pigs would die? - Back cover."@en
  • "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"
  • "Story of a Shaker boy, his beloved pet pig and his passage into manhood."@en

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  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Young adult fiction"
  • "Ouvrages pour la jeunesse"
  • "Downloadable e-Books"
  • "Braille books"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
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  • "Electronic books"@en
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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Jugendbuch"

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  • "Bu sha zhu de yi tian"
  • "Vie et mort d'un cochon"
  • "Mein Teil der Erde : eine Kindheit in Vermont"
  • "A Day no pigs would die"
  • "Bu sha zhu di yi tian"
  • "A Day no pigs would die"@en
  • "MORT D'UN COCHON"
  • "Toeji ka han mari to chukji ant 0154on nal"
  • "Mort d'un cochon = A day no pigs would die"
  • "Mort d'un cochon : (Roman)"
  • "A day no pigs would die by Robert Newton Peck : active reading guide"@en
  • "Hoy no morirán cerdos"
  • "A Day No Pigs Would Die"
  • "A Day No Pigs Would Die"@en
  • "Mort d'un cochon"
  • "돼지가한마리도족지않던날"
  • "A day no pigs would die by Robert Newton Peck"@en
  • "Twaeji ka han mari to chukchi ant'ŏn nal"
  • "Sesang esŏ kajang arŭmdaun ibyŏl iyagi : ŏrŭn ŭl wihan tonghwa"
  • "세상에서가장아름다운이별이야기 : 어른을위한동화"
  • "A day no pigs would die"@en
  • "A day no pigs would die"
  • "Bu sha zhu di yi tian / Chen Zhiping ; xiu wen : Cao Lijuan"
  • "vie et mort d'un cochon"
  • "不殺豬的一天"
  • "Skrawek ziemi"@pl
  • "Day no pigs would die"
  • "Day no pigs would die"@en
  • "Hoy no morirán cerdos = A day no pigs would die"

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