A Day No Pigs Would Die
Author: Robert Newton Peck
This is a gentle story about a 12-year-old Vermont farm boy. “Manages to evoke a sense of vanished America–when neighbors were neighborly, when food was home-cooked, and clothes and philosophy homespun”.–Newsweek. An ALA Notable Children’s Book…..Read More
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