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| Mike Shea |
 Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 12:05 pm |
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Hi,
Way back when I was in third or fourth grade (some 16 years ago now),
I read a series of books about a boy and his friend (who went by the
nickname "Shoe"), who were always getting in trouble. the first one
may have won an award and was about the narrator saving the life of a
pig. They were great books, and I read most of them, but have
completely forgotten any title names along with the author. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike |
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| Irene Christian |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:05 pm |
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On 26 Jul 2004 10:01:37 -0700, mike_usagisan@yahoo.com (Mike Shea)
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Quote: Hi,
Way back when I was in third or fourth grade (some 16 years ago now),
I read a series of books about a boy and his friend (who went by the
nickname "Shoe"), who were always getting in trouble. the first one
may have won an award and was about the narrator saving the life of a
pig. They were great books, and I read most of them, but have
completely forgotten any title names along with the author. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
The Alvin Fernald books by Clifford B. Hicks
Alvin and his best friend, Shoie, are always involved in adventures.
His little sister, nicknamed Pest, is always tagging along.
My favorites are Alvin's Swap Shop and Alvin's Secret Code.
Irene |
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| Mike Shea |
| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 1:05 pm |
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Quote: The Alvin Fernald books by Clifford B. Hicks
Alvin and his best friend, Shoie, are always involved in adventures.
His little sister, nicknamed Pest, is always tagging along.
My favorites are Alvin's Swap Shop and Alvin's Secret Code.
Irene
Irene,
Thanks so much for trying to help! However, I just looked up the
books you suggested, and while they look like great books,
unfortunately, they're not the ones I remember. The Shoe books were
about the narrator and his friend named Shoe, who were country kids.
I believe in one of the books they dress up as a cow or horse and
(maybe) rollerskate into town for the halloween fair or costume party
or something like that.
While humorous, they also were a little serious, and the first was
near heart-breaking as he tried to save a pig's life.
Man, I wish I could remember the author or anything else to go on.
Can anyone help me, please?
-Mike |
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| Allison Williams |
| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 5:06 pm |
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A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert newton Peck comes to mind. Here is the
Amazon description:
Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle
austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's
acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the
land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood.
In the daily round of his thirteenth year, as the seasons turn and the farm
is tended, the boy -- whose time is the only-yesterday of Calvin Coolidge,
whose people are the Plain People living without "frills" in the Shaker Way
-- becomes a man.
That is all, and it is everything. The boy is mauled by Apron, the
neighbor's ailing cow whom he helps, alone, to give birth. The grateful
farmer brings him a gift -- a newborn pig. His father at first demurs ("We
thank you, Brother Tanner," said Papa, "but it's not the Shaker Way to take
frills for being neighborly. All that Robert done was what any farmer would
do for another") but is persuaded. Rob keeps the pig, names her, and gives
her his devotion ... He wrestles with grammar in the schoolhouse. He hears
rumors of sin. He is taken -- at last -- to the Rutland Fair. He broadens
his heart to make room even for Baptists. And when his father, who can
neither read nor cipher, whose hands are bloodied by his trade, whose wisdom
and mastery of country things are bred in the bone, entrusts Rob with his
final secret, the boy makes the sacrifice that completes his passage into
manhood.
All is told with quiet humor and simplicity. Here are lives lived by earthy
reason -- in a novel that, like a hoedown country fiddler's tune, rings at
the same time with both poignancy and cheer.
On 7/28/04 1:46 PM, in article
e11597d7.0407280946.2cd594d3@posting.google.com, "Mike Shea"
<mike_usagisan@yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote: The Alvin Fernald books by Clifford B. Hicks
Alvin and his best friend, Shoie, are always involved in adventures.
His little sister, nicknamed Pest, is always tagging along.
My favorites are Alvin's Swap Shop and Alvin's Secret Code.
Irene
Irene,
Thanks so much for trying to help! However, I just looked up the
books you suggested, and while they look like great books,
unfortunately, they're not the ones I remember. The Shoe books were
about the narrator and his friend named Shoe, who were country kids.
I believe in one of the books they dress up as a cow or horse and
(maybe) rollerskate into town for the halloween fair or costume party
or something like that.
While humorous, they also were a little serious, and the first was
near heart-breaking as he tried to save a pig's life.
Man, I wish I could remember the author or anything else to go on.
Can anyone help me, please?
-Mike |
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| Anna in CA |
| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:05 pm |
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I posted your query on BookSleuth, and you got a couple of suggestions there as
well.
Two people thought it might be "Soup" by Robert Newton Peck:
"Rural Vermont during the 1920's is the setting for this nostalgic account of
episodes in the lives of young Robert Peck and his pal, Soup."
And another person thought it might be "A Day No Pigs Would Die," also by
Robert Newton Peck.
Hope one of these is it. Let us know!
Anna  )
AnnainCA@aol.com
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| Mike Shea |
| Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:05 am |
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Hi,
Thanks, you're both right. I was thinking of the Soup books, along
with A Day No Pigs Would Die, which I remembered as a Soup book.
Ooops. That's how good you all are! You even impressed my librarian
girlfriend who had no clue what I was talking about.
Thanks again!
Mike
annainca@aol.com (Anna in CA) wrote in message news:<20040730204959.12238.00002812@mb-m01.aol.com>...
Quote: I posted your query on BookSleuth, and you got a couple of suggestions there as
well.
Two people thought it might be "Soup" by Robert Newton Peck:
"Rural Vermont during the 1920's is the setting for this nostalgic account of
episodes in the lives of young Robert Peck and his pal, Soup."
And another person thought it might be "A Day No Pigs Would Die," also by
Robert Newton Peck.
Hope one of these is it. Let us know!
Anna )
AnnainCA@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/AnnainCA |
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