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In The Yearling, a boy must release the young fawn he has raised back into the wild
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Short-story Writer and Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Was Born
August 8, 1896
Born on August 8, 1896, in Washington, D.C., Rawlings was a journalist, short story writer, and a novelist. She is best known for The Yearling, which was published in 1939 and won a Pulitzer prize, one of the most important prizes a writer can receive. The book is a coming-of-age story of a young boy who finds and raises a young fawn. The story takes place in the big scrub country, which is now the Ocala National Forest in Florida. The Yearling was also turned into a movie in 1946. Do you know a book that was turned into a movie? Which did you like better?
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