In the Company of Owls

Peter Huggins

NewSouth Books, Jan 1, 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 95 pages

Aaron Cash and his sister Shelley live on a dairy farm in Tennessee. Their neighbor Morgan Blackburn raises beef cattle and runs an illegal still which he does not want discovered. He shoots at Aaron and his father Nate to keep them away when they accidentally come upon the still. Morgan attempts to buy Nate off, but Nate refuses. When Morgan resorts to increasingly threatening acts--vandalism, arson--Aaron and Shelley find themselves caught in the struggle between their father and Morgan, leading to a final confrontation in which Aaron must make the most difficult decision of his life.

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IN THE COMPANY OF OWLS

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The ease of playing baseball with best friends, tagging along on wild turkey hunts and shooting bottles with his BB gun in the fields of his dairy-farm home in Tennessee is interrupted after 11-year ...

Contents

• Shooting Piglet: 9
• Sunday Dinner: 15
• In the Woods: 19
• At the Bald: 25
• At Morgan Blackburns House: 29
• The Comics: 33
• School: 37
• The Offer: 43
• The Truck: 49
• Sheriff Pate: 55
• The Fire: 60
• The Visit: 65
• The Game: 72
• The Fence: 77
• The Porch: 88
• The River: 91
• Epilogue: 93

About the author

PETER HUGGINS is an award-winning poet and children's author. His books of poems are Hard Facts, Blue Angels, Necessary Acts, and South. He won a literature fellowship in poetry from the Alabama State Council on the Arts in 2006; his picture book Trosclair and the Alligator was selected for the PBS show Between the Lions and was chosen as one of the best children's books of the year in 2007 by the Cooperative Children's Book Center and the Bank Street College of Education. He is a professor in the English Department at Auburn University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: In the Company of Owls
• Author: Peter Huggins
• Illustrated by: Paula Goodman Koz
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: NewSouth Books, 2008
• ISBN: 158838036X, 9781588380364
• Length: 95 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Lifestyles / Farm & Ranch Life; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / General