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Peers

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The remote Florida woods, 1870s. Swamps, pines, rattlesnakes, and bears. Rains that can last for weeks, and droughts that can burn away entire crops. Here, on a patch of land reclaimed from the wilderness, which the Baxter family calls "the island," lives twelve-year-old Jody. His world is work from dawn to dusk and the rare evenings when his tired father tells stories by the fireside...

This is a book about growing up, about the harsh truths of American farming, and about true friendship between father and son. But most importantly, it's a touching love story between two peers: a boy who misses a brother and companion, and an orphaned fawn, which Jody feeds and raises as his closest friend.

There's no room for lies here, no happy ending, no magical last-second rescue... There's only the cruel truth of nature: if you want to live, kill. If you love, let go. And sometimes what you love most must die for you to survive. It was for this truthfulness and poignant poignancy that Ernest Hemingway praised the work, and in 1939 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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