Robert Newton Peck
2) Soup
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The adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.
5) Horse thief
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In 1938, with the help of a lady doctor and an aging, card-cheating, dice-rolling horse thief, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo, and finds a family in the process.
6) Bro: a novel
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Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather's Florida cattle ranch.
7) Cowboy ghost
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Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a cattle ranch in Florida in the first part of the 1900s has made Titus very close to his older brother, Micah, and determined to make Micah proud of him when the two go on their first cattle drive together.
8) Soup in love
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As Valentine's Day approaches their Vermont town of Learning, Soup and Rob experience several forms of love.
9) Soup & me
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The further adventures and misadventures of Rob and Soup, two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.
10) Soup on wheels
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Rob and Soup vie for the prize in their town's "Vermont Mardy Grah."
11) Soup on fire
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Rob and Soup set in motion a wild scheme to catch the eye of the Hollywood talent scout visiting their small Vermont town.
12) Soup's uncle
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A visit from Uncle Virus and his motorcycle gang stimulates Soup to new and ingenious schemes, involving a cache of moonshine, a motorcycle competition, and revenge on the dreaded Janice Riker.
13) Extra innings
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After a tragic airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate goes to live with his wealthy great-grandfather and his adopted black great-aunt Vidalia and he finds unexpected solace in the stories of her childhood spent travelling with a Depression-era Negro baseball team.
14) Trig
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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."
15) Soup on ice
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Rob and Soup engineer an incredible appearance by Santa and his sleigh in their small Vermont town.
17) Soup's hoop
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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.
18) Soup's goat
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Clean and tidy cousin Sexton lends his unusual talent to Soup and Rob as they engage in the town's goat-cart race in Vermont.