Old Yeller
(Book - Children's, Book)

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New York : Harper & Bros., [1956].
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158 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Published
New York : Harper & Bros., [1956].
Format
Book - Children's, Book
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
MG
Level 5, 5 Points
Lexile measure
910

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A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Gipson, in earlier books, has evinced an evocative quality which recaptures for the reader the sounds, the smells, the sights of the region he knows and loves, recaptures too the emotional quality, the moods of his central figure. This was particularly true in Hound-Dog Man, which for some readers was marred by the vernacular. In Old Yeller the story is told as a boy might share his own experience of growing up -- the dialect is no more insistent-possibly less so- than in The Yearling. Travis is thirteen when his father goes off on the long cattle trail to Abilene, leaving him as man of the house. There were the hogs who ran wild and some of the most exciting parts of the story tell of the roping and branding of the young. There were the cattle that had to be gentled for milking. There was a constant battle against skunks and coons in the corn patch and the melons. There was a small brother, violent in protest against Travis as disciplinarian. And -- a fairly shadowy figure- there was his mother, taking her share and more, in the struggle for existence. But most important there was Old Yeller, a big ugly yellow cur, whom Travis hated at the start and grew to love and trust and depend on, up to the tragic and dramatic end. A moving segment of early frontier America.
Target Audience
Middle School.
Target Audience
910,Lexile.
Target Audience
910L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader,5.0.
Study Program Information
Reading Counts!,5.4.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,MG,5.0,5.0,66.,VBUW
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader,MG,5.0,5,66
Awards
Newbery Honor Book, 1957

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Gipson, F., & Burger, C. (1956). Old Yeller . Harper & Bros..

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gipson, Fred, 1908-1973 and Carl Burger. 1956. Old Yeller. Harper & Bros.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gipson, Fred, 1908-1973 and Carl Burger. Old Yeller Harper & Bros, 1956.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Gipson, Fred, and Carl Burger. Old Yeller Harper & Bros., 1956.

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