The Yearling

The story of a Florida farm boy in the late 1800's whose beloved pet deer is destroying the family's deparately needed crops. (Circulates)

Ezra "Penny" Baxter and his wife Ora are pioneer farmers near Lake George, Florida in 1878. Ora is still haunted by the deaths of the three other children of the family. With all of his siblings dead and buried, Jody longs for a pet to play with and care for. One day, when a rattlesnake bites Penny, they kill a doe and use its organs to draw out the venom. Jody asks to adopt the doe's orphaned fawn. Penny permits it but warns Jody that the fawn will have to be set free when it

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Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman, Jr.
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, The story of a Florida farm boy in the late 1800's whose beloved pet deer is destroying the family's deparately needed crops. (Circulates)
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