num_pages: 513
description: No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and 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.--back cover
language: English
title: The Yearling
titlecomplete: The Yearling
characters: Jody Baxter
genres: Classics, Coming Of Age, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Novels, Animals, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 28475
places: Florida, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -978278400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Novel
publisher: Aladdin