''The Yearling'' is the Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It follows a young boy named Jody Baxter growing up in the harsh, isolated wilderness of post-Civil War Florida. His life changes when he adopts an orphaned fawn named Flag, teaching him deep lessons about love, responsibility, and the painful realities of growing up. This young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of this fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. This classic American novel explores Jody's deepest desire for a pet as he forms an unbreakable bond with Flag. The fawn represents the innocence of Jody's childhood. But this is an unforgettable tale for all ages.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written before the concept of young adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists. Contents: The Yearling Cross Creek The Sojourner South Moon Under