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" A day no pigs would die "
Robert Newton Peck.
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744428
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b564377
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Robert Newton Peck.
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A day no pigs would die\ Robert Newton Peck.
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New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, [, 2005], ©1972.
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150, 13 pages ; 18 cm
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0679853065
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: 0738307890
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: 0785713522
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: 0812415426
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: 1439527628
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: 9780679853060
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: 9780738307893
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: 9780785713524
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: 9780812415421
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: 9781439527627
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| Abstract
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We're not rich, Papa. "Yes we are, boy. We have one another to fend to, and this land to tend." When young Rob Peck saves a neighbor's cow, the neighbor gives him a pig as a reward. Pinky is Rob's constant companion as he juggles backbreaking farm work with the schooling that is so important to his father. Pinky is a pet and a friend, but on a farm, every animal must have its use. And on a farm, even a boy must sometimes be a man. Will the support of a loving family and the plainspoken Shaker teachings of his father, Haven, be enough to see Rob through on the day no pigs would die? - Back cover.To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.
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Farm life -- Vermont -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Swine -- Fiction.
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PZ7.P339R634 9999
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Robert Newton Peck
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