Holt McDougal Library, Middle School with Connections: Student Text 1998 : The Yearling (Hardcover)

from AuntieClio

Rawlings deserved her Pulitzer for this wonderful book. Her writing is so evocative of the time and place in 1870s Florida where the Baxter family lives off the land, striving to make their farm provide the sustenance they require. There are the usual heartbreaking tragedies, including a near fat...

from bookworm12

I avoided this one for years because I always thought it would be just like reading another painful version of Old Yeller. It may be a good story, but I'm a softy when it comes to animals and I didn't want it to break my heart. I'm so glad I finally picked it up. It's not that it doesn't have its...

from rmckeown

While straightening out my shelves, I came across a book I read when I was in about 7th grade. Thanks to Sister Stella Marie, who alone encouraged me to read books I enjoyed even if they verged on adult titles. The book I recently pulled from the shelf was The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings...

from lpardey

This was one of the nicest books I have read this year. I wonder how I missed it all these years. A tale of a young boy growing up on an isolated farm in Florida. Life was tough, his folks had a really difficult time but the sense of love that flows through the story is wonderful. Even better is ...

from Schmerguls

363. The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (read 31 Jul 1949) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1939) I read this book in July of 1949. On July 30 of that year I said: "Reading in The Yearling. It is downright painful, it just tears me apart. Tears well in my eyes so easily, and the death of Fodder...