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Updated November 19, 2003
A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck (Young Adult)A young Vermont boy is shunned or tormented by other children because of the smell of butchering that lingers over his clothes. His father’s occupation of butchering pigs is a trial to the young Robert. When his father is not able to continue with his job, the butchering falls to Robert. He has to learn at a young age that sometimes you’ve got to do “what’s got to be done”. Sometimes what’s got to be done includes his pet pig that can’t produce litters and as such is seen as a pig slated for slaughter.