Black Fawn

An orphan boy and an orphan fawn. Two creatures alone in a world that doesn't want them. Bud Sloan knows what it means to be unwanted. Sold from the orphanage to a farmer's labor, he has no family, no home that feels like his. Then he wanders into the woods and finds something that changes everything: a newborn fawn, coal-black and trembling, its mother nowhere to be seen. Just like Bud. Just another orphan. But the forest is dangerous, the farmer is indifferent, and the hunters are coming. The black fawn becomes Bud's secret, his mission, his mirror. In Jim Kjelgaard's gripping adventure, survival demands courage and cunning. This is a story about connection between the unwanted, about fighting for those who can't fight for themselves. It has endured because it speaks to something universal: the need to belong, to protect, to be seen.