num_pages: 208
description: Fourteen-year-old John Barron is asked, like his father and grandfather before him, to spend the summer taking care of their sheep in the haymeadow. Six thousand sheep. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all those sheep.John doesn't feel up to the task, but he hopes that if he can accomplish it, he will finally please his father. But John finds that the adage "things just happen to sheep" is true when the river floods, coyotes attack, and one dog's feet get cut. Through it all he must rely on his own resourcefulness, ingenuity, and talents to survive this summer in the haymeadow.
language: English
title: The Haymeadow
titlecomplete: The Haymeadow
genres: Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Animals, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Survival, Westerns
ratings_count: 1289
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Juvenile Fiction
publisher: Yearling