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The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  • 428 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 1938
  • 66 editions
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1 About this book

Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag after a fatal encounter with his mother and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend.

Good for readers who want: a classic and a coming-of-age story.

  • Classics
  • Coming of age
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Animals
  • Bears
  • Boys
  • Children's fiction
  • Dialects

2 About Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1896–1953

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling—about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn—won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written before the concept of young adult fiction arose but is now commonly included in teen reading lists.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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