The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Howells, William Dean (1837–1920).
Catalogue synopsis
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"The Flight of Pony Baker" by William Dean Howells is a children's novel published in 1902. Set in Ohio fifty years before its publication, it follows young Frank "Pony" Baker, who lives with his overprotective mother, father, and five sisters. Fed up with his constraints and daily frustrations, Pony repeatedly plans to run away from home. His schemes involve other boys from town, including the adventurous Jim Leonard, leading to various escapades and misadventures in Boy's Town.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story
- Author credits: Howells, William Dean (1837–1920)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Amusements -- Juvenile fiction
- Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Parent and child -- Juvenile fiction
- Runaway children -- Juvenile fiction
- Siblings -- Juvenile fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: Adventure
- Category: American Literature
- Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
- Category: Novels
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