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61) Bluebird summer
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Gramps' farm isn't the same after Grandma's death, but slowly Mags and Cody work to recreate her spirit by bringing back some of the things she loved.
63) Picnic farm
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Children visiting a farm enjoy a picnic made up of all the foods the farm produces.
64) The edge of town
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julie Jones knows what she is: a country girl, not beautiful but presentable, in skirts too long to be fashionable. A responsible young woman who has been raising her brothers and sisters since her mother's death and helping her father on their hardscrabble farm. Secretly, she wishes someone she could love would find her special enough to come courting.
65) Cluck o'clock
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A group of chickens has a full day on the farm, from eating breakfast early in the morning to avoiding a fox late at night.
67) A painted house
Author
Language
English
Description
"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For generations the Millers have lived in Miller's Valley, Pennsylvania. Mimi Miller tells about her life with intimacy and honesty. As Mimi eavesdrops on her parents and quietly observes the people around her, she discovers more and more about the toxicity of family secrets, the dangers of gossip, the flaws of marriage, the inequalities of friendship, and the risks of passion, loyalty, and love. Home, as Mimi begins to realize, can be "a place where...
70) Fanny's dream
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Fanny Agnes is a sturdy farm girl who dreams of marrying a prince, but when her fairy godmother doesn't show up, she decides on a local farmer instead.
74) First boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dragged into the political turmoil of a presidential election year, fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for himself and makes it clear whose first boy he really is.
75) Punk farm
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments to perform in a big concert as a rock band called Punk Farm.
76) Stink soup
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When Annabelle and her brother go to stay with their grandmother, Annabelle tries to keep him out of trouble, struggles to avoid eating the tomatoes she hates, and has an encounter with a skunk.
77) Down on the farm
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Simple rhyming text describes the sounds and activities of animals during a day on the farm.
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In 1905 North Dakota, eleven-year-old Russian immigrant Shoshana is bullied for being Jewish, but after listening to the music of her homeland, she is reminded of the resilience and traditions her people have brought all the way to the prairie.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, who are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing--and maybe even a second chance--just when they least expect it.
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