The Yearling

An American classic--and Pulitzer Prize-winning story--that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet, now in a lush keepsake edition.

No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. When young Jody Baxter adopts and orphaned fawn he calls Flag, he 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 which won Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings a Pulitzer Prize. Complete with N.C. Wyeth's original oil paintings, this glowing work features a soft touch cover, gold foiling, and tip-in artwork.

Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 03/30/1988
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.40w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9780020449317
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 19
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 725 / Yearling


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 44

About the Author
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) is the celebrated American author of The Yearling, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939.

N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) began his artistic career as a young adult. Born in Needham, Massachusetts, Wyeth traveled the American West extensively and drew what he saw. His prolific career includes three thousand works and more than one hundred book illustrations, including those for a majority of the Scribner Illustrated Classics series.