Everything you need to understand or teach Murder in a Pig's Eye by Lynn Hall.
Lynn Hall's books for young readers often center on difficult, sensitive, and controversial themes, but Murder in a Pig's Eye is nearly pure escapism.
Hall's intent in this book is simply to divert, enchant, and entertain her audience by means of creating pleasing characters and a hilarious and absorbing plot. This short novel is, specifically, a farcical comedy/mystery.
When aging farmer Henry Siler cuts his arm with a chain saw on the...