The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story

by William Dean Howells

"The Flight of Pony Baker" by William Dean Howells is a children's novel published in 1902. Set in Ohio fifty years before its publication, it follows young Frank "Pony" Baker, who lives with his overprotective mother, father, and five sisters. Fed up with his constraints and daily frustrations, Pony repeatedly plans to run away from home. His schemes involve other boys from town, including the adventurous Jim Leonard, leading to various escapades and misadventures in Boy's Town.