Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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.
Books by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Cross Creek
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in the wild beauty of a Florida orange grove, navigates runaway pigs and colorful neighbors, finding humor, hardship, and a deep bond with the land that shapes her.
The Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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In the Florida scrubland, a boy's bond with a rescued fawn becomes a heartbreaking lesson about survival and sacrifice.