Most Popular Books by Robert Newton Peck

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.

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.

The further adventures and misadventures of Rob and Soup, two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.

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.

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

Soup''s crazy plan to help his town''s basketball team to victory includes constructing a musical instrument called a spitzentootle and snaring the evil Janice Riker in an unpleasant trap.

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.

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."

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

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

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

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.

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.