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Author
Series
Publisher
A Dutton Book
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Award-winning Southern writer Sharyn McCrumb is a best-selling author who's won widespread critical acclaim for her Appalachian Ballad novels. In The Rosewood Casket, a farmer named Randall Stargill has fallen into a coma. As his family gathers to prepare for the inevitable, his four sons work on a handmade casket and their wives sew a quilt to line it. Complications arise, however, when clairvoyant neighbor Nora Bonesteel brings her own disturbing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Tracy Campbell never wanted to leave Hope Harbor, Oregon, or the idyllic three-generation cranberry farm where she grew up. But life--and love--altered her plans. When tragedy strikes and changes her plans yet again, she finds herself back in her hometown with a floundering farm to run and a heartbreaking secret. Romance is not on her agenda. Nor is it on Michael Hunter's. The visitor from Chicago has daunting secrets of his own. But when Tracy recruits...
44) The farm book
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1997?], c1949
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A simple description of farm life follows Betty and Bobbie through one day.
46) Endless mercy
Author
Series
Treasures of Nome volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"In 1891, when Madysen Powell's supposedly dead father shows up, her gift for forgiveness is tested and she's left searching for answers. Daniel Beaufort arrives in Nome, longing to start fresh after the gold rush leaves him with only empty pockets, and finds employment at the Powell dairy. Will deceptions from the past tear apart their hopes for a better future?"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Description
In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2001
Description
"Upon the border of a remote and out-of-the-way village in south-western Missouri lived an old farmer named John Gray. . . ."In 1876, the same year The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, Mark Twain wrote a story for The Atlantic Monthly. He meant it as a "blind novelette"a challenge to other writers to submit their own ending of the story in a national competition. Twain asked his editor at The Atlantic to request submissions from leading authors...
Author
Series
Wild robot volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
51) Toaff's way
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Toaff is a small squirrel full of big questions. Why must I stay away from the human's house? Why shouldn't I go beyond the pine trees? Why do we fight with the red squirrels across the drive? His sister shrugs--that's just the way things are. His brother bullies--because I said so. And the older squirrels scold--too many questions! Can Toaff really be the only one to wonder why?--Amazon.
52) Georgie Lee
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy and his grandmother share all sorts of adventures on her farm with her cat Boots and her cow Georgie Lee.
53) Albert Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Eakin Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When a friend releases a pet alligator on Lee's farm, its continued growth creates both fun and problems.
55) Understood Betsy
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
1987, 1917
Description
"Understood Betsy is a 1916 novel for children by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Originally published in 1917, this novel follows the adventures of Elizabeth Ann, an orphan who leaves a privileged urban lifestyle with her cousin to live with the Putney's on a Vermont farm. Elizabeth Ann, nicknamed Betsy, lives with her father's aunt, Harriet, who expects her to lead a very sheltered life. When she is sent to live with her mother's family, on a farm in...
57) Mountain born
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1993
Description
A boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Roseanna Chaldecott spent her life as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan. But when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, something snaps. Unsure of her future, Roseanna heads upstate on one tank of gas and with no plans to return. In the foothills of the Adirondacks, Roseanna discovers the perfect hideout in a ramshackle farm. Its seventy-six acres are rich with possibilities and full of surprises, including a mother and daughter squatting...
59) The fulfillment
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1979
Description
New readers will fall in love with New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer's unforgettable novels-and for those who have already read her timeless romances, rediscover the passion and magic . . . .
Two brothers work a rich and bountiful land-and one extraordinary woman shares their lives. To Jonathan Gray, Mary is a devoted and giving mate. To Aaron, she is a beloved friend. But seven childless years of marriage have forced Jonathan to...
60) Shake it off
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Stuck on her aunt and uncle's dairy farm for the summer, Bria begins crafting elaborate milkshakes at the creamery, which catch the eye of her cousins' cute friend, Gabe.
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