Most Popular Books by Robert Newton Peck

Rob and Soup vie for the prize in their town''s Vermont Mardy Grah.

Unplanned events erupt on stage during the Thanksgiving pageant when the uncommon cold forces Soup, Rob, and the other pilgrims around the glowing stove, making the fifty-pound live turkey very frisky and setting off bags of corn.

In HOW to write fiction like a pro: A simple-to-savvy toolkit for aspiring authors, celebrated author Robert Newton Peck provides emerging writers with the power tools they need to start building their own books. Readers will learn everything from pacing a story and writing dialogue that flows to molding the tangible "stuff" of life into characters and storylines of fiction. HOW is written in the straightforward, earthy, and humorous voice that fans of Rob''s fiction have come to know and love. Informative but not preachy, HOW''s lighthearted style immediately engages readers, inspiring them to take up the tools and write from their own lives and their own strengths.Learning isn''t a load. It''s laughter.Aspiring authors are sure to learn--and laugh--as they discover HOW to write fiction like a pro.

Swish! Soup and Rob have basketball fever. The entire town of Learning, Vermont, is psyched up for the big game against their archrival, Pratt Falls. But there''s trouble. The Learning Groundhogs'' star center, Shorty Smith, has sprained his ankle. Soup and Rob have a plan. Their new friend Piffle Shootensinker, a seven-foot-tall European basketball star from Pretzelstein, has just moved to town. Piff has a problem. He''s homesick, he misses his dog, and can sink a basket only when he hears the music of his homeland on the spitzentootle. What''s a spinzentootle? It doesn''t take Rob and Soup long to learn. Can they locate one (and also find a dog) in time to inspire Piff to lead the Learning Groundhogs to victory?

Life in quiet Clod''s Corners changes drastically for Higbee and his best friend Quincy when the very nasty Striker kids move in and Higbee decides to make them the target of a grand Halloween prank.

Rob is caught up in his friend Soup''s plan to help their town of Learning, Vermont, celebrate the Fourth of July with a suitable pageant that sets the record straight about several of the town''s citizens.

Rob manages Soup''s campaign for class president in their small Vermont town.

An illegitimate son searches for his real father and encounters many adventures along the way.

When their teacher enters the annual Chump''s Landing Overland Obstacle Bicycle Race, Horrace Hubert and his best friend Spooner Jitwell do everything they can to make sure she wins the silver trophy.

A young girl living on a Vermont farm relates the events of the day her uncle brought her a genuine "Junior G-man machine gun."

In May 1775 two boys participate in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys and befriend a young British soldier.

Clean and tidy cousin Sexton lends his unusual talent to Soup and Rob as they engage in the town''s goat-cart race.

A pig''s tremendous appetite proves useful when a wolf invades the barnyard.

A Vermont youth becomes involved with Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys despite his father''s Tory leanings in the early days of the Revolutionary War.

A rugged life-style in the Vermont woods with a feisty old hunter called Wishbone Kirk develops the character of a 15-year-old boy.

A teenage boy risks his own popularity to give friendship and support to a retarded girl who is harassed by her classmates.

Fifteen-year-old Muncie Bolt thinks he''s lost Hem Lion''s friendship forever when his father prosecutes Hem''s father for operating a still in Liberty, Vt., during the days of prohibition.

A pig''s tremendous appetite proves useful when a wolf invades the barnyard.

A cowpuncher, a plumber, and a drummer set off to see the King of Kazoo in search of their hearts'' desires: a purple cow, a sink to fix, and a drum. The story is interspersed with ten songs.

An unlikely trio of a deaf-mute Black fighter, his elderly manager, and a young orphan girl travel the Florida countryside putting on fight shows.