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A Day No Pigs Would Die
Contributor(s): Peck, Robert Newton (Author)

ISBN: 0812415426 ISBN-13: 9780812415421
Publisher: Perfection Learning

OUR PRICE: $15.13

Binding Type: Prebound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1994
* Out of Print *

Annotation: This 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").

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age
- Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles - Farm Life & Ranch Life
- Juvenile Fiction | Readers - Beginner

Dewey: FIC

Age Level: 10-13

Grade Level: 5-8

Lexile Measure: 690(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.67" H x 4.15" W x 6.99" L (0.30 lbs) 163 pages

Themes:
- Cultural Region - New England
- Demographic Orientation - Rural
- Geographic Orientation - Vermont
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age

Features: Ikids

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 359
Reading Level: 4.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 4.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
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.

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