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O Pioneers!
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Willa Cather |
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska cou… |
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Lucy Gayheart
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Willa Cather |
Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world. |
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The naked lady
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Wallace, Ian |
When a sculptor moves in to the farm next door, young Tom is inspired to become an artist. |
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Otis and the tornado
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Loren Long |
When a tornado threatens his farm, Otis the tractor must try to save the animals, including the unfriendly bull. |
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On the farm
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Kirsten Hall,John Steven Gurney |
A farmer spends her day gathering eggs, milking the cow, harvesting corn, driving the plow, and feeding the horses. |
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A Prairie Year
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Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet |
The year begins with hockey, icefishing, and a snowmobile race. Spring brings renewal: the arrival of piglets, baby chicks in the farm kitchen; and outside, the fields are seeded. In summer, there’s … |
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Peau de pêche
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Jodi Lynn Anderson |
Trois adolescentes participent à la cueillette de pêches au verger de Darlington dans l'état de Georgie. Au cours de cet été, Murphy, Leeda et Birdie partagent leurs connaissances sur les garçons, ap… |
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Érik le mouton viking
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Elizabeth Creith |
Les parents de Marie ont fait l'acquisition d'un mouton rouge d'Islande, un mouton viking. La fillette le baptise Erik le rouge et lui raconte des histoires de Vikings qui le font rêver de voyages et… |
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La vie de la ferme
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Megan Kopp |
Learn about the lives of the hard working people who first settled Canada. |
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Pumpkin moonshine
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Tasha Tudor |
A little girl visiting her grandparents sets out to find a fine pumpkin for Halloween, and it leads her a merry chase when it rolls down the hill. |
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BROWN COWS IN THE MANOR
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RICHARD HANSFORD |
These charming tales of the countryside reveal some of the pitfalls and pleasures encountered when a couple who have spent most of their life in the suburbs buy a 65-acre farm and begin to raise beef… |
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Footprints on the ceiling
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Dorcas Smucker |
"Life can be a bit upside-down in the Smucker family's Oregon farmhouse. In this book Dorcas Smucker, mother of six, writes thoughtful essays about muffins on the floor, orange dot on the kitchen cei… |
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Charlotte's web
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E. B. White |
Wilbur is no ordinary pig. When he was just a piglet, he was rescued from a terrible fate by Fern, the farmer's daughter. Now he's all grown up and his life is threatened once again. But he has a uni… |
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Horseshoe knoll
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Carrie Bender |
Dannie comes to work for Steven and Annie, a young Amish couple in Tennessee, but then is loaned to a ranch near the mountains of Colorado and helps with sheephearding for the summer. |
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Lessons from the hoghouse
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Elizabeth Clark |
Lessons From The Hoghouse leads us on a hilarious romp in the countryside as we follow Liz, a career-minded single woman, as she tackles the unfamiliar world of gentlewoman farming. -- Cover page [4]. |
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Hello, farm
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Brighter Child (Firm) |
Welcome to the farm! Say "hello" to all the farm animals and see what noises each animal makes. |
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Thimble Summer
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Elizabeth Enright |
Children's novel set in 1930s rural Wisconsin. First published in 1938.
A story about the various things that happen during the summer when Garnet Linden is nine. |
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Together
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Dimitrea Tokunbo |
When the animals and the farmer work together, a great deal can be accomplished. |
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A Northern Light
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Jennifer Donnelly |
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death o… |
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Ethan Frome
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Edith Wharton |
*Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome as a frame story — meaning that the prologue and epilogue constitute a "frame" around the main story*
**How It All Goes Down**
It's winter. A nameless engineer is… |
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