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1) Otis
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Series
Language
English
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When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help.
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Language
English
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The time is 1979. Larry Cook, a proud and exacting farmer, whose family has lived on this land for four generations, unexpectedly decides to retire and turn over his valuable holdings to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense - a reward for years of hard work, a challenge to make the farm even more successful. But the youngest, Caroline, a Des Moines lawyer, flatly rejects the idea,...
4) Chirp
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
On today's farm, B is for barn cat... E is for erosion... G is for grinding feed, and I is for... inoculate? In 26 beautifully detailed spreads, acclaimed illustrator Arthur Geisert takes readers on a literal journey following a real road in Iowa (County Road Y31) through the ins and outs of America's farmland. This isn't your grandfather's farm book. It still features pigs, hay, and other familiar farm residents, but you'll see a very different kind...
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Series
Ada's House novel volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When she moves far from home to avoid a relationship gone sour, Sylvia Fisher becomes a farmhand on the Blank farm, where she comes into conflict with Aaron Blank, who comes home from rehab determined to sell his parents' farm.
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English
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Folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar is determined to see his new job as hog site scout for Global Pork Rind through to the end. However he is forced to face the idiosyncratic inhabitants of Woolybucket and to question his own notions of loyalty and home. A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain. That Old Ace in the Hole is a richly textured story of...
11) Blue chicken
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An enterprising chicken attempts to help an artist paint the barnyard and accidentally turns the whole picture blue.
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Series
Junie B. Jones volume 15
Language
English
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Description
When Junie B. learns her kindergarten class is going on a field trip to a farm, she worries about being attacked by a rooster.
15) McCrephy's field
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Joe McCrephy returns to his farm after 50 years to see his fields dramatically changed. This tale chronicles the changes in flora and fauna, showing the evolution from farm to forest.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Hart's Hollow Farm has seen better days, but for Emmy Hart it is a home worth fighting for. She asks Kristen Daniels to help return the farm to its former glory and Kristen accepts, despite her fears about getting involved with Emmy or the two kids in Emmy's care. Emmy's grandson, Mitch Hart thought he'd kicked the red dust of Georgia off his boots forever. Now haunted by the loss of the sister he couldn't save, he's determined to see his orphaned...
19) The protector
Author
Series
Families of honor volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Ella, after being forced to auction off most of her late father's belongings, including her family's land, must find the courage to risk her heart when Loyal Weaver, the new owner of her family's old farmhouse, asks for her hand in marriage.
20) Wazdot?
Author
Publisher
Disney* Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An alien is mystified by the sights and sounds of Earth, but a decoder beam helps identify such oddities as a pig, vegetables, and a tractor.
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