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		She was one of the major influences in Peck's childhood, and he is unstinting in his praise of her and other teachers and their desire to get the children in their charge to read.
		Peck strives for verisimilitude and believability in his characters and their actions.
		Along with school teachers, Robert Newton Peck has a particular affection for librarians and, in fact, married one, Dorothy Houston, in 1978.
	www.edupaperback.org /showauth.cfm?authid=101 (1061 words)

	Robert Newton Peck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Newton Peck, whose birthday is February 17th, was born and raised on a farm in Vermont.
		Peck's second book, Soup (1974), about a boy and his pal, spawned 13 sequels and led to an ABC After School Special.
		Although Peck received a BA degree and attended a year of law school, he recognizes the value of real life experience.
	www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org /brthpage/02feb/2-17peck.html (184 words)

	In Defense of Robert Newton Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die
		Note: This defense of Peck's book is written as a newspaper op-ed piece in response to a public concern over the title in question's place in a hypothetical small town library.
		These pages have recently been filled with calls for Robert Newton Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die to be pulled from the shelves of the young adult section of the Garbendale Library, on the grounds that it is inappropriate for minors.
		Peck makes it clear that any apparent cruelty is because of circumstance rather than callousness.
	www.redgravenstein.com /people/gs/mlis/234/pigs.htm (931 words)

	Fall 1997
		Peck's childhood growing up as a member of a Shaker family in rural Vermont (as claimed on the book jacket and reinforced by the use of the author's name as protagonist).
		Peck's defense was that his book was just a novel portraying simple country life, and that it did no harm.
		Peck's defense for the inaccuracies in his book is that he was merely trying to write a book about simple country life, I find that rationale unacceptable.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ALAN/fall97/sullivan.html (3612 words)

	A Day No Pigs Would Die - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nevertheless, the author commented that the character of Haven Peck was derived heavily from his own father.
		Set in the 1930s, it follows him as he is bitten by a cow, receives a pig named Pinky, and faces the death of his father.
		Because of its sensitive subject matter, the inclusion of Peck's novel in literature courses and school libraries was frequently challenged during the 1990s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Day_No_Pigs_Would_Die (215 words)

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		Born on February 17, 1928 in Vermont, Robert Newton Peck was the youngest in a family of seven children.
		Robert, although the youngest of his brothers and sisters, was the first to attend school.
		A self-described "flag-waving,redneck patriot," Robert Newton Peck is the author of some of the finest Young Adult Literature that has been written in the world.
	www.holton.k12.ks.us /staff/jireland/Summer1999/pigslessons.htm (1725 words)

	boekverslag A day no pigs would die door Robert Newton Peck \| scholieren.com
		The father of Robert Peck, Haven Peck, is a farmer.
		Robert Newton Peck, a native of Vermont, was born whitin a musket shot of Fort Ticonderoga.
		Robert put his hand into the cow’s mouth and there it was a hard ball stuck in her windpipe.
	www.scholieren.com /boekverslagen/522 (955 words)

	Please, Tell Me the Secrets: Revisiting Robert Newton Peck
		Peck says, "To me a good historical novel is one that shows one event and the people who were there at that time, through the eyes of a fictional character" (p.
		Peck says that conversation between the two boys is a cinch to write.
		Peck suggests the answer is because fun is a motivator for hard work, as anyone who has played eighteen holes of golf on a hot day can tell you.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ALAN/winter97/w97-04-Gerlach.html (3189 words)

	Robert Newton Peck: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Newton Peck is an American American quick summary:
		American, when used as an adjective, can mean "of the united states of america" or "of or relating to the americas"; when used as a noun, "united states citizen",...
		Soup is a novel by robert newton peck....
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	MUW - Office of Public Affairs - Press Release
		The son of hardworking rural people, Peck was born in Vermont, where he was raised on a farm.
		Newton received a bachelor of arts degree from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., in 1953 and studied law at Cornell University.
		Along with schoolteachers, Peck has a particular affection for librarians, and, in fact, married one, Dorothy Houston, in 1978.
	www.muw.edu /publicaffairs/2005_prnews/050408_Peck.html (437 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck - Mass Market Paperback
		Robert himself is presented with two separate voices.
		The first speaker is the man reliving the time during which he came to understand the joy and sorrow of life; the second is the boy who is the only surviving son of a dying father.
		Robert Peck writes from his own life expirences and he lived through such trauma in his life.
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	A DAY NO PIGS WOULD DIE - Audio Bookshelf Curricular Connection
		Born in 1928, Robert Newton Peck gleans much of his writings from his upbringing in rural Vermont during the Depression.
		Peck was the youngest of seven children and the first to attend school, a feat highly valued by his parents who never learned to read.
		Currently, Peck lives on a ranch in Florida where he enjoys the outdoors and finds time to answer the nearly one hundred fan letters he receives each week.
	www.audiobookshelf.com /nopigs_cc.html (745 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog
		Robert Newton Peck comes from generations of Yankee farmers.
		Like the Vermont folk he writes about in his novel, he was raised as a boy in the Shaker Way, which endured even after the sect itself had died out.
		Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=23515 (134 words)

	MonkeyNotes-A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peck is a big, tall man who is proud by nature; he is also strict and stern, but has a gentle side to him.
		Peck is a hard-working farmer, a pig butcher, and a practical man.
		Peck bathes on Saturday nights so he will be fresh and presentable for the Shaker meeting that he always attends on Sunday.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDayNo14.asp (425 words)

	Robert Newton Peck Biography / Biography of Robert Newton Peck Author and Artists for Young Adults Biography
		Robert Newton Peck's first book, A Day No Pigs Would Die, won several book awards and secured its author a long career in young-adult fiction.
		This 1972 debut and Peck's subsequent works portray a rural America in which hard work, self-sufficiency, and the importance of education are predominant.
		Born in 1928, Peck was the seventh child of rural Vermont farmers who belonged to the S
	www.bookrags.com /biography-robert-newton-peck-aya (190 words)

	Free Book Notes on Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck - AntiStudy.com
		Haven Peck, his father was a "quiet and gentle man whose work was killing pigs.
		Peck grew up on a farm and worked as a lumberjack, in a paper mill, and in a slaughterhouse b...
		One day when Robert was skipping school and walking through the woods he seen his neighbors (Mr.
	www.antistudy.com /free_book_notes/Day_No_Pigs_Would_Die.php (257 words)

	Teenreads.com -- WEEDS IN BLOOM by Robert Newton Peck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WEEDS IN BLOOM, Peck's latest literary endeavor, is a simple yet enjoyable autobiography that unfolds as a series of sketches of various people who have influenced his life over the past seventy years.
		It is as if he has knowingly created 25 beginnings to 25 possible stories, and by reading through them, his readers are given access to the essence of his life by getting to know the people he has encountered along the way.
		In "Saw" and "Paper," Peck tells of his grueling yet enlightening experiences in the saw and paper mills, and in "Dr. Granberry" we are introduced to a football scout for small colleges that would change Peck's life forever by pushing him to go to college and providing him with a scholarship.
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	This Little Piggy Didn't Go to Market, She Went to Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Despite the fact that Robert and his family are not Shakers, they have adapted to many of the Shaker values, the most important of these being, the respect for life.
		Unfortunately, the pig was barren, and Robert is now faced with the fact of having to slaughter her for food for his family.
		Robert Newton Peck was describing experiences from his adolescence.
	csun.edu /~cek79619/ThisLittlePiggyDidn'tGotoMarketSheWenttoHeaven.html (2359 words)

	Robert Newton Peck Biography / Biography of Robert Newton Peck Main Biography
		Robert Peck (born 1928) won critical and popular acclaim for his first novel, A Day No Pigs Would Die (1973).
		Critics lauded its unsentimental rendering of farm life and the often brutal realities of the natural world, and the book is now a frequently studied text in junior high school classrooms.
		Peck was born in rural Vermont to Shaker farmers whose hard yet rewarding lives inspired much of his fiction.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-robert-newton-peck (192 words)

	Amazon.com: Soup: Books: Robert Newton Peck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Rural Vermont during the 1920's is the setting for this nostalgic account of episodes in the lives of young Robert Peck and his pal, Soup."--starred, School Library Journal --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		Peck relates growing up in rural/small town Vermont with a best friend who gets him into lots of trouble.
		The fourth star would be for the author Robert Peck, because you don't know if the author did these things or if he just made them up.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1883332141?v=glance (1451 words)

	Robert Newton Peck on LearnOutLoud.com - Your Audio and Video Learning Resource.
		Robert Newton Peck on LearnOutLoud.com - Your Audio and Video Learning Resource.
		Robert Newton Peck's most touching and famous book is a story so filled with light that once you hear it...
		This is the voice of Rob Peck, a boy determined to fill a man's...
	www.learnoutloud.com /Results/Author/Robert-Newton-Peck/262 (91 words)

	Amazon.com: Arly's Run: Books: Robert Newton Peck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grade 7 Up-- Peck picks up the action just minutes from where it ended in Arly (Walker, 1989) as Brother Smith is rowing the boy across Lake Okeechobee to a new life in Moore Haven.
		Peck writes powerfully, but one wonders how many readers will hang on through the catalog of catastrophe that is Arly's life.
		Peck dedicates this book to Florida's migrant workers, with many of whom he worked and spoke, and his picture of their life (as it was in 1928) is a vivid one; even more compelling is his account of the hurricane and its aftermath.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802781209?v=glance (693 words)

	Robert newton - Bro by Robert Newton Peck from HarperCollins Publishers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Newton Baer, Class of 1858 Robert N. Baer was born on April 12, On September 21, 1888, Robert Newton Baer died of typhoid in his Fayette Street
		If you are a Robert Newton fan you will find a rich catalog of Robert Newton movies right here.
		Robert Newton, Nowhere in Sight, Protection, The Neighbor.
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	Day No Pigs Would Die, A - Robert Newton Peck
		All that Robert done was what any farmer would do for another.") but is persuaded.
		Here are lives lived by earthy reason -- in a novel that, like a hoedown country fiddler's tune, rings at the same time with both poignancy and cheer.
		About the Author: Robert Newton Peck comes from generations of Yankee farmers.
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	A Day No Pigs Would Die by: Robert Newton Peck
		Although the father cannot read, he frequently refers to the, "Book of Shaker." The reader cannot be sure if this book really exists, but it apparently covers the rules of life.
		Life is hard on the farm, and Robert is forced to grow up quickly and make some difficult choices.
		Many youngsters would be pulled into the story by the emotional scenes and easily put themselves into Robert's shoes.
	www.writinglife.org /discussion/_disc3/000000b1.htm (223 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Robert Newton Peck
		In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Robert Newton Peck's bestselling classic, A Day No Pigs Would Die, here is the eagerly anticipated sequel.
		This must for schools, libraries, and summer reading lists is now available for the first time in paperback.
		Now, in an autobiography as unique as he is, Peck tells his story through the people in his life.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=23515 (370 words)

	Amazon.ca: Extra Innings: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peck devotes the second third of the book to Vidalia's history and the last third to Tate's great-grandfather, Abbott, so readers never fully identify with the young protagonist's predicament.
		Worldly Aunt Vidalia is a little too perfect, and Tate's worship of her is so artificially worded it rarely sounds authentic: "Vidalia, you are so wise, it's eerie," says Tate.
		Honestly, is there?" The best parts of Peck's novel chronicle the sports adventures of Vidalia's childhood, which vividly capture the politics of mixed-race baseball in the 1930s.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0064472299 (643 words)

	eBay - robert newton peck, Fiction Books, Audiobooks items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hallapoosa by Robert Newton Peck (1988) 1 st EDITION
		NEW - Horse Thief : A Novel by Robert Newton Peck
		The Happy Sadist Newton Peck, Robert, Illustrated by D
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	HarperTeen: Main
		Robert Newton Peck is the author of more than sixty books, including Horse Thief, Cowboy ghost, and A Day No Pigs Would Die.
		Peck "manages to evoke a sense of vanished America -- when neighbors were neighborly, when food was home-cooked, and clothes and philosophy homespun." Raised on a farm, he is familiar with cattle, hogs, and horses.
		He lives with his wife, Sam, in Longwood, Florida, where he and a partner currently own eleven mustangs.
	www.harperteen.com /global_scripts/product_catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=13828 (123 words)

	Alibris: Robert Newton Peck
		The further adventures and misadventures of Rob and Soup, two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.
		In 1933 Florida, a newly orphaned boy is sent to live with the grandfather he fears and despises, while his older brother is ready to break out of prison to protect him.
		As in his "A Day No Pigs Would Die," Peck pays tribute to the power of love and forgiveness.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Robert_Newton_Peck (952 words)

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