# The Yearling

**Author(s):** Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-yearling/verdict.json
**Genres:** childrens, literary-classics, literary-fiction, middle-grade, young-adult
**Pages:** 400
**Publisher:** Atheneum Books for Young Readers
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 1985 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780684184616
**ISBN-10:** 0684184613
**ASIN:** B0BXKZJQN2
**Amazon categories:** Children's Books > Animals > Pets
**Amazon binding:** $4.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-yearling

## Description

Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag after a fatal encounter with his mother and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend.


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Also contained in:

 - [Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: Volume Nine](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15158482W)

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-yearling/verdict.json

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