RASCAL

One day, Sterling, a tender-hearted boy who loves animals, finds a baby raccoon in the woods and names him ‘Rascal’ and takes him home, where the baby raccoon becomes Sterling’s constant companion. Rascal grows up very well, but one day he gets a taste for sweet corn and begins to raid the neighbors’ corn gardens during the night. Sterling realizes that it is truly difficult for men and wild animals to coexist in the same place. After a misfortune befalls Sterling’s family and Sterling must to move, he decides to return Rascal to his natural life in the woods.

Based on the novel “Rascal” by Sterling North