"Old Yeller" ... though I wasn't reading it ... it was being read to me. Avoided the movie after that.

I got a tad misty at a couple odd books I picked up, initially, for the wrong reason. I used to buy small paperback books in English class. There was some service or whatever the school used.

The first was called: "My Darling, My Hamburger", and I read in the 7th grade.

I then picked up a book, I think by the same guy, called "The Pigman", which I read mostly in a Holiday Inn after my house burned down.

Both were about teens. Both had sad deaths.