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    Peyton's Place
    Peyton's Place
    Peyton's Place
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    Peyton's Place

    By Donna G. Kelley

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    Peyton’s Place is a collection of stories written especially, but not solely, for youth of ten to fourteen years of age. Family relationships and social issues represented in these stories can be discussed as a family to establish moral principles. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDonna G. Kelley
    Release dateApr 11, 2018
    ISBN9781386740186
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      Peyton's Place - Donna G. Kelley

      DEDICATION

      I hereby dedicate Peyton’s Place to my siblings and their families whose characterizations inspired me to write for children.

      INTRODUCTION

      Peyton’s Place is a collection of stories written especially, but not solely, for youth of ten to fourteen years of age. Family relationships and social issues represented in these stories can be discussed as a family to establish moral principles. 

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      1 YEAR OF THE PLAGUES

      Run, Shawn! A snake! Rob yelled to his younger sister who played on the porch with her dolls. Shawn’s feet obeyed her jeans-clad brother as the snake slithered down the porch steps. The snake incident laid a feeling of responsibility on Rob’s gangling ten-year-old frame. Last night, his father had explained the seriousness of the situation.

      We have had very little rain during the spring and summer, Dad had said. Snakes approach the farmhouse in search of water. Other creatures may get desperate, too. Be extra careful.

      Wild animals had always made Rob feel skittish. I guess it’s because of their sudden movements and mysterious ways, Dad. Rob wondered if he could react valuably in an emergency.

      Wild animals are quite different from farm animals, Dad said.

      Rob kept count of the snakes that trespassed in the yard. He could never match the snake’s pattern to a similar picture in the encyclopedia. Several hot, dry days passed. As Rob combed his reddish hair in the bathroom, a sudden Hiss-s-s! caught his attention.

      The sound led Rob’s eyes to the hamper which the snake had claimed as its fort. Slamming the bathroom door, Rob rushed down the stairs and out of the house calling for his father. Dad answered from the barn.

      Dad, there’s a snake in the bathroom! Rob’s freckles stood out in the pallor of fear. His usually firm jaw slackened.

      Get a meat-hook from the meat-house, Rob!

      Every time that Dad approached the snake, it buried itself in a groove of the baseboard heating register. Several attempts failed before he draped the black snake over the meat-hook.

      Open the front door for me, Dad said, and find a five-gallon lard can. Punch some small holes in the lid.

      In a few minutes, Dad deposited the snake

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