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__A Day No Pigs Would Die__ Robert Newton Peck

I selected this novel because I thought it had an interesting title and because I read the summary in the book about a boy skipping school and finding a cow have birth. The information I needed to know before reading the novel was what was it about, and would I be interested in a book that had a boy saving a cow's life after it had birth. A boy skips school and wants a day when no pigs would die is what happened before the novel even began. A boy named Rob skipped the last half of school because he was out at recess and these boys were pointing at his clothes and were making fun of them. So, he ran home and on his way home he saw Apron, a cow giving birth to a calf. That is what was going on as the story begins. Rob, the main character, is telling the story. The setting of the novel is in the early 1970's, in the afternoon, out in the country, and on a farm. The setting is important because it just can't happen anywhere because you don't see a cow out in the middle of a city having birth. It has to happen on a farm out in the country. The setting is really important because it has to match up with the conflict in the story. The first problem faced by the main character is that he ran away from school, and he wish he wouldn't have. So, now he doesn't know how to solve it. The author gets me to read this book by he makes the novel so interesting with details that he doesn't want me to put the book down so, I just keep reading the book.