Borden Deal

Contains: [Where the Red Fern Grows]( Connections: The pine of Akoya (Japanese folk tale) / retold by Rafe Martin -- The Christmas hunt (short story) / by Borden Deal -- Him (novel extract) from Bambi: a life in the woods / by Felix Salten -- Hunting yarns / compiled by Kemp P. Battle -- Mart Moody's bird dog (tall tale) / retold by Robert Bethke -- Davy Crockett meets his match (tall tale) -- Paul Bunyan's cornstalk (tall tale) / retold by Harold Courlander -- Momma's store (autobiography extract) from I know why the caged bird sings / by Maya Angelou -- Princess (short story) / by Nicholasa Mohr -- The saddest day the summer had (short story) / by Dick Perry -- Bloody murder (novel extract) from The original adventures of Hank the cowdog / by John R. Erickson -- Wilson Rawls (biographical sketch).

The dream vacation that turned into a nightmare of terror.

Using Mr. Dreiser's notes, the author has recreated this turbulent period. He tells the " personal lives of two men driven by opposing forces into a violent and fateful confrontation.""

The Least One portrays a white sharecropping family during the Great Depression and is based on Borden Deal’s experiences growing up on a small farm in northeastern Mississippi. Deal portrays the realities of cotton-field work: planting, chopping, the laying-by time, and harvesting. He succeeds in evoking not only the crushing economic circumstances of poor Southern whites in that period but also their fierce sense of independence and self-sufficiency.

Contains the following condensed titles: The Other Room - by Borden Deal The Dogs of War - by Frederick Forsyth All thing Bright and Beautiful - by James Herriot Malevil - by Robert Merle A Daughter of Zion - by Rodello Hunter