Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same title, The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.

    They live with her mother's parents and Jane's many little adventures in the college town makes for a good read. Jane Hope is the kind of girl who has a soft spot for the underdog and is a rescuer - from kittens to people.