It was a young person\u2019s book which I read when I was 10 or 12 years old in Canada.\u00a0 It would have been in the late 1960\u2019s or early 1970\u2019s when I found it in our school library. It was set in the Southern USA and I think that the period was shortly after WWII. The book was the story of a boy that was staying with a family in a big old rural home. There was something about hunting raccoons at night with dogs.\u00a0 I think there was actually quite a bit about the dogs and something sad happened to one of them. There was something about hearing trains running in the distance at night.\u00a0 There was something sad associated with this (maybe to do with the dogs?). The family had a black (I think) cook with whom the boy spent considerable time.\u00a0 She was rather nurturing.\u00a0 And a WWII vet who was rather troubled would come to the back\/kitchen door and she would give him food.\u00a0 I think that the boy was afraid of him. My recollection is that it was a rather haunting, sentimental, sad and yet hopeful story.\u00a0 I think that the boy was trying to determine how he fit into the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was a young person\u2019s book which I read when I was 10 or 12 years old in Canada.\u00a0 It would have been in the late 1960\u2019s or early 1970\u2019s when I found it in our school library. It was set in the Southern USA and I think that the period was shortly after WWII. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,11,4,19,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}