The Yearling
A 1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings about a boy in rural Florida who adopts an orphaned fawn.
The book won the Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of American children's literature, exploring themes of coming-of-age and the painful loss of innocence.
A yearling is a young animal in its second year of life.
- fawnYoung deer, or flatter
- deerAntlered hoofed mammal
- JodyAmerican given name
- FloridaSoutheastern American peninsula state
- scrublandArea of low shrubs
coming-of-age · loss · boyhood · wilderness · hunting · pet · orphan · wild animal · heartbreak · innocence · rural · rural life · Pulitzer · American classic · Gregory Peck · hardship · Great Depression · growing up
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Greek hero, Latinized
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