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2) Meteor!
Author
Language
English
Description
A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.
3) Wet dog!
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A dog's attempts to cool off on a hot day get him into trouble with a series of people and finally lead him to interrupt a country wedding.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during ablizzard.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
Beth wishes she were more like Molly, who doesn't mind if boys hide dead bugs in her desk, and who tells big kids to get lost if they tease her. Beth is flattered when Molly invites her to stay overnight at her house in the country; when the girls get lost, Beth is the one who gets them home.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
A young boy, living in rural Kentucky, looks forward to the annual Christmas festivities, especially the traditional family cream candy; but, when his favorite dog disappears, he comes to realize that tradition and family have a deeper meaning.
11) City chicken
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Egged on by the cat next door, a chicken from the city visits the country to see what she's been missing, and finds that it's not "all that it's cracked up to be."
13) Spuds
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Maybelle, Jack, and Eddie want to help Ma by putting something extra on the table, so they set out in the dark to take potatoes from a nearby field, but when they arrive home and empty their potato sacks, they are surprised by what they see.
16) Quilt alphabet
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
From apples to cows, kettles to scarecrows, warm country images abound in this delightful alphabet poem.
17) The longest wait
Author
Publisher
Orchard
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
When Daddy rides off on his horse in a terrible snowstorm to deliver the mail, his family anxiously awaits his return.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The author used to live in the busy city where there were buses and trains, and people waiting for buses and trains. Now he lives in the country and jubilantly takes us on a tour of his home, pointing out all the animals that share his space.
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