Robert Newton Peck

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1972
  • Latest Book:
    June 2004
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Full Series List in Order

Arly

1 - Arly (Feb-1989)
2 - Arly's Run (Dec-1991)

Little Soup

Little Soup's Hayride (May-1991)
Little Soup's Birthday (Nov-1991)
Little Soup's Turkey (Nov-1992)
Little Soup's Bunny (Feb-1993)

Soup

Soup & Me (Jan-1975)
Soup for President (1978)
Soup (Jun-1979)
Soup on Wheels (Feb-1981)
Soup's Goat (Feb-1984)
Soup on Ice (Oct-1985)
Soup on Fire (Sep-1987)
Soup in the Saddle (Dec-1987)
Soup's Uncle (1988)
Soup's Drum (May-1988)
Soup's Hoop (Mar-1990)
Soup in Love (Jan-1992)
Soup Ahoy (Mar-1994)
Soup 1776 (Aug-1995)

Trig

1 - Trig (Mar-1977)
2 - Trig Sees Red (Oct-1978)
3 - Trig Goes Ape ()
4 - Trig or Treat (Oct-1983)

Books in Order: 53 titles

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  • Bro

    Florida: 1933 A train, rushing through the night ... a car, stalled in its path ... a boy's life, shattered. Tugwell Dockery hasn't spoken since the horrific events that unfolded one afternoon six years ago at his grandfather's ranch. Now he's bac...

  • Horse Thief

    After losing two fingers in his first bull ride, seventeen-year-old Tullis Yoder worries he'll never have a chance to top another bull. Then the rodeo show he works for goes broke, and he learns that its thirteen horses, his only family, will be slau...

  • Extra Innings

    In order to see the future, sometimes you have to look to the past. When a devastating plane crash kills Tate Stonemason's family and mangles his leg, the sixteen-year-old sees his dreams of playing pro baseball shatter. Now living with his great...

  • Cowboy Ghost

  • Nine Man Tree

    Deep in the Florida swampland, young Yoolee Tharp is fast becoming a man.  His ongoing mission is to protect his little sister, Havilah, and his mother, Ruth Ann, from the violent rages of his hard-drinking father, Velmer.

    Then another unspe...

  • Soup 1776

    Soup

  • A Part Of The Sky

    In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Robert Newton Peck's bestselling classic, A Day No Pigs Would Die, here is the eagerly anticipated sequel. This must for schools, libraries, and summer reading lists is now availabl...

  • Soup Ahoy

    Soup

  • Little Soup's Bunny

    Little Soup



  • Little Soup's Turkey

    Little Soup

    It's Thanksgiving and Soup and Rob's class are putting on a Thanksgiving play. To add atmosphere, they bring seven sacks of corn and a live turkey onto the stage. Guess what happens when the turkey gets loose and the sacks of corn spill onto the stov...

  • Soup in Love

    Soup

    Determined to catch the attention of lovely Norma Jean and a pair of cute Texas twins, Soup and Rob set out to construct the biggest Valentine contraption ever and win the prize for the best Valentine in town. Reprint....

  • Arly's Run

    Arly - 2

  • Little Soup's Birthday

    Little Soup

  • Little Soup's Hayride

    Little Soup

  • Higbee's Halloween

  • Soup's Hoop

    Soup

    Swish! Soup and Rob have basketball fever. The entire town of Learning, Vermont, is psyched up for the big game against their archrival, Pratt Falls. But there's trouble. The Learning Groundhogs' star center, Shorty Smith, has sprained his ankle.
    ...

  • Arly

    Arly - 1

    Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town....

  • The Horse Hunters

    In 1932 in Florida, despite his older brother's objections, fifteen-year-old Ladd finds himself, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, traveling alone more than 100 miles to bring back wild horses for the rodeo and for breeding....

  • Hallapoosa



  • Soup's Drum

    Soup

    Soup and Rob join Miss Boland's marching band and find an enormous drum to play as part of their town's Fourth of July celebration, and Soup plans to make the fireworks display an expression of his feelings for Juliet Rapture...

  • Soup's Uncle

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    Soup

    Soup and Rob are in trouble again. And this time it’s loud trouble, moving at a very fast speed. Soup's uncle comes roaring into town, along with his rowdy gang of motorcycle pals. The Hardboilers. Uncle Vi (short for Virus) is a tough-riding ca...

  • Soup in the Saddle

    Soup

  • Soup on Fire

    Soup

  • Soup on Ice

    Soup

  • Spanish Hoof

  • Soup's Goat

    Soup

  • The Seminole Seed

  • Trig or Treat

    Trig - 4

  • Kirk's Law



  • Justice Lion

  • Soup on Wheels

    Soup

  • Mr. Little

  • Clunie

  • Eagle Fur

    As the French and Indian War rages, sixteen-year-old Abbott Coe serves as a bondservant to trapper Skinner Benet, learning all the master woodsman has to teach and falling in love with the young Indian mother of Benet's child...

  • Soup

    Soup

    When it came to getting the two of us in trouble, Soup was a regular genius....Soup was my best pal. His real and righteous name was Luther Wesley Vinson, but nobody called him Luther. He didn't like it. I called him Luther just once, which promoted ...

  • Hub

  • Basket Case

  • Trig Sees Red

    Trig - 2

  • Soup for President

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    Soup

    Everyone in Miss Kelly's class is excited about the upcoming election for school president. The good news is that Rob's best friend, Soup, is the boys' candidate, and the bad news is that the girls' candidate is Rob's sweetheart, Norma Jean Bissell. ...



  • Last Sunday

  • Fawn

    At the time of the Battle of Ticonderoga in 1758, an Indian boy, the son of a Jesuit priest, observes the savagery of the French, English, and Indians, and tries to save his father from what could be a terrible fate....

  • Trig

    Trig - 1

  • The King's Iron

  • Patooie

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  • Rabbits and Redcoats

  • Hamilton

  • Hang for Treason

  • Wild Cat

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  • Soup & Me

    Soup

    Soup is back again, getting himself and his best pal Rob into more and better mischief. From the crisp Vermont spring to the chill of winter, Soup and Rob learn, among other things: not to leave their clothes on the bank of the creek when Janice R...



  • Millie's Boy

  • A Day No Pigs Would Die

    Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story ofa Vermont boyhood that is part fi...

  • Banjo

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  • Trig Goes Ape

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    Trig - 3

Award-Winning Books by Robert Newton Peck

A Day No Pigs Would Die
1977 Colorado Children's Book Award -- Picture Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Newton Peck has published 53 books.

Robert Newton Peck does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bro, was published in June 2004.

The first book by Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die, was published in December 1972.

Yes. Robert Newton Peck has 4 series.
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