num_pages: 432
description: An instant bestseller when it was released in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize winner has been read and loved by school-age children across the nation for more than fifty years. In this classic story of the Baxter family and their wild, hard, and satisfying life in remote central Florida, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has written one of the great novels of our times. A rich and varied tale—tender in its understanding of boyhood, crowded with the excitement of the backwoods hunt, with vivid descriptions of the primitive, beautiful hammock country, written with humor and earthy philosophy—The Yearling is a novel for readers of all ages. Its glowing picture of a life refreshingly removed from modern patterns of living is universal in its revelation of simple courageous people and the beliefs they must live by.
language: English
title: The Yearling
titlecomplete: The Yearling
characters: Jody Baxter
genres: Fiction, Animals, Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Literature, Middle Grade, Classics, Novels, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 28476
places: Florida, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -978278400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Novel
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers