- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD; 50th edition (Mar 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0020449313
- ISBN-13: 978-0020449317
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 450,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Fighting off a pack of starving wolves, wrestling alligators in the swamp, romping with bear cubs, drawing off the venom of a giant rattlesnake bite with the heart of a fresh-killed deer--it's all in a day's work for the Baxter family of the Florida scrub lands. But young Jody Baxter is not content with these electrifying escapades, or even with the cosy comfort of home with Pa and Ma. He wants a pet, a friend with whom he can share his quiet cogitations. Jody gets his pet, a frisky fawn he calls Flag, but that's not all. With Flag comes a year of life lessons, frolicking times, and achingly hard decisions. This powerful book is as compelling now as when it was written over 60 years ago. Read simply as a naturalist study of the Florida interior, it fascinates and entices. Add the heart-stopping adventure and heart-wrenching human elements and this is a classic well worth its Pulitzer Prize. Earthy dialect and homespun wisdom season the story, giving it a unique and unforgettable flavour, and N.C. Wyeth's warm, soft illustrations capture an era of rough subsistence and sweet survival. (Age 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter
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No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than "The Yearling." Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag 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. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is great for the whole family. Although the book has some touching moments it is a must! Rawlings did an excellent job on describing the plot as well as the charactors. Jody Baxter is a very young and immature boy when the book opens. He has no friends, yet wants some. He is troubled by many deaths and usully has nothing to do. One day when Jody and Penny, Jodys dad, are hunting Penny is bit by a snake. Penny has to kill a deer for it's antitoxin. Jody feel really bad to let the yearling deer alone to die.Jody brings it home and cares for it. After a while the deer is causing too much of a problem for the family to handle. I personly recomend you read this book!!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think that this was a great book. It was so sad. I think that all the people who gave this book only one star are uncultured swine.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I remember reading this book as a nine year old at school and just loving it. With this in mind I ordered it for my nine year old.It is a perfect childhood read with lots of fabulous descriptive prose to expand a young mind(especially in this day and age of poor diction, awful spelling and generally poor English language skills).Would highly recommend this as a school read or as a means of encouraging an interested reader.
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Good but TOOOO LONG!
THE YEARLING WAS A VERY GOOD BOOK. ALTHOUGH IT WAS SOMETIMES BORING. BUT IT TAUGHT A FABULOUS LESSON. THIS BOOK IS ALSO VERY VERY VERY DISCRIPTIVE SO BE PREPARED. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 1999
Finely crafted story of a boy coming of age in Florida.
This book is an assignment for my son entering 7th grade. He is dyslexic, so I am reading it on tape for him. Read more
Published on 8 July 1999
Life in central Florida.
This classic novel was written by an author who wrote it at her home a few miles south of Gainesville (in Cross Creek, Florida) and it won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 1999
Overall it was ok :)
This book became monotonous to an extent that all the characters such as Jody and Pa Baxter were doing is hoeing the corn and hunting. Read more
Published on 25 May 1999
about that person that said it was in the 1920's
This book was pretty good, I thought it was sad, but well written. And to the person who said it took place in the 1920's...it didn't!! Read more
Published on 9 Feb 1999
Allows a reader to experience life in another time.
Want to experience the Florida under the layers of concrete and Mickey Mouse ears? Read this book. The era is just after the Civil War when Florida had no lights or electric... Read more
Published on 14 Jan 1999
IF YOUR UNDER 1000 YEARS OLD, THIS BOOK WILL SUCK TO YOU!!!
THIS book is the most worthless, boring, slow-reading book I have ever been forced to read. I highly disapprove of it being required High School time-waste book. Read more
Published on 7 Jan 1999
Slow, but a good moral
I think that this book is very slow and confusing. I am being forced to read this in the 7th grade. I guess it has a good moral of getting through a lot of hard choices in life... Read more
Published on 3 Jan 1999
This is perhaps the most boaring book I have ever read.
I had to read this book for school. The story that is there is good, but way too discriptive. It would have made a good short story, not a loooooong novel. Read more
Published on 2 Dec 1998
Not a point to the whole book. WASTE OF TIME
I really hated this book. The first half of the book has no point and the second has no point either. I would not reccomend this book to anyone. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 1998
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