Title: The Yearling
Description: Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag after a fatal encounter with his mother 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.


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Subjects: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, Age 4 - 8, Age 9 - 11, Age 12 and Up, Animals, award:pulitzer_prize=1939, award:pulitzer_prize=fiction, Bears, Boys, Children's Fiction, Classics, Coming of age, Deer, Deer as pets, Dialects, does, English language, Family, farmers, Farm life, fawns, Fiction, Folklore, Human-animal relationships, hunters, Juvenile fiction, juvenile literature, Legends and stories, Parent and child, Post Civil War, Pulitzer Prize Winner, rattlesnakes, Readers, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Wild animals as pets, Florida, fiction, Deer, fiction, Parent and child, fiction, Farm life, fiction, Boys, fiction, Family life, fiction, Study and teaching, Foreign speakers, Anglais (Langue), Étude et enseignement, Allophones, Animaux sauvages (Animaux familiers), Romans, nouvelles, Parents et enfants, Vie à la ferme, Cerfs, Garçons, English language, juvenile literature, Young adult fiction
Places: Florida, Volusia, Ocala, Boston
People: Ezra Baxter, Ora Baxter, Jody Baxter, Flag, Forresters, Fodder-wing Forrester, Julia, Rip, Perk, Doc Wilson
Time periods: 1870