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The Yearling
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag after a fatal encounter with his mother and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as … |
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Willie Bea and the time the Martians landed
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Virginia Hamilton |
In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast. |
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Zeely
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Virginia Hamilton |
Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen. |
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Yonie Wondernose
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Marguerite de Angeli |
A curious Amish boy who lives on the family farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shares a wonderful secret with his father. |
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The Good Earth
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Ruth Goode,Donald F. Roden,Stephen Colbourn,Nick Bertozzi,Pearl S. Buck,Ernst Simon |
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby,… |
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McBroom and the great race
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Sid Fleischman |
With his one-acre farm as the prize, Josh McBroom on a giant chicken races Heck Jones on a Wyoming jackalope. |
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Farming
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Bobbie Kalman |
This fantastic collection portrays every aspect of farm life, from chores such as cooking, plowing, and tending the livestock to fun and frolic on the farm! |
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After The Rain King
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Steph DeFerie |
Glory may be just a little kid but she's in big trouble - when she opens a locked book she finds in an old trunk, a mysterious stranger jumps out! "I am the Rain King, the Lord of Tears, the Master … |
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The last horsemen
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Charles Bowden |
A century ago, power on farms was provided by one and a half million heavy horses. Today, heavy horses are almost a thing of the past, except for one place: Sillywrea Farm in Northumberland, where Jo… |
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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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Love among the chickens / by P. G. Wodehouse
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P. G. Wodehouse |
P. G. Wodehouse at his comical best with the tale of a young writer who agrees to help his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge start a chicken farm. But chickens become only a secondary concern … |
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Small town, big dreams
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Darnell G. Dickson |
Seventeen-year-old Dane, concerned that his family's move to small-town Oregon will hurt his chances of winning a scholarship to Brigham Young University, strives to live out his Mormon faith on the … |
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The big snowstorm
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Hans Peterson |
A family on an isolated farm have mixed emotions about the arrival of a snowstorm. |
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Old McDonald had a farm
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Angus Henry McDonald |
Story about the author's father, James Angus McDonald, and his farm near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. |
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Alida's song
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Gary Paulsen |
A remarkable novel about one of the most important and loving relationships in Gary Paulsen's life.The wonderful grandmother seen through the eyes of a young boy in The Cookcamp reaches out to him at… |
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The land remembers
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Ben Logan |
The Land Remembers is the autobiographical account of Ben Logan, first published in 1975 by Heartland Press. Logan was raised on his family's farm, Seldom Seen, in the southwest Wisconsin hill countr… |
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Greenbrook farm
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Bonnie Pryor |
Spring at Greenbrook Farm brings many baby animals, including a calf, filly, chicks, ducklings, and a new baby in the family. |
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Farewell to the Island
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Gloria Whelan |
In 1816, sixteen-year-old Mary O'Shea accepts her married sister's invitation to visit her in London and experiences much of the world beyond her beloved family farm on Mackinac Island. |
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The edge of town
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Dorothy Garlock |
Dorothy Garlock's novels have won her acclaim from the Chicago Sun-Times as a "gifted storyteller" and praise from readers as a truth-teller about America and its people. Now in her hardcover debut, … |
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We were the Mulvaneys
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Joyce Carol Oates |
We Were the Mulvaneys is the intricate story of close knit family in a close knit community and the unraveling of the Mulvaney family and their community after an act of sexual violence. |
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