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Author
Series
Melendy quartet volume 3
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A summer that promises to be eventful turns into something extra special when the four Melendy children become friends with an orphaned boy.
86) 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."
87) Eden: a novel
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Divorcing his wife under the resentful scrutiny of his promiscuous adolescent daughter, emotionally detached architect Mark pursues a relationship with his ex's best friend, who is desperate to have a baby, in a story set in a rural Israeli town.
Author
Series
[Thrush Green series] volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Thrush Green is normally a peaceful place. But as autumn turns to winter, feelings are running high in the village. Miss Fogerty, a respected teacher at the village school for over thirty years, is troubled by the methods of the new young teacher. Dotty Harmer takes up driving, much to the concern of others, and it isn't long before she is involved in an accident and a threatening court case. And when the good...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council...
92) 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.
94) Thrush Green
Author
Series
[Thrush Green series] volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Read's charming chronicles of small-town life have achieved an almost legendary popularity worldwide by offering a welcome return to a gentler time and "wit, humor, and wisdom in equal measure" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). This volume introduces Thrush Green, the neighboring village to Fairacre: its blackthorn bushes, thatch-roofed cottages, enchanting landscape, and jumble sales. Readers will delight in a new cast of characters and also welcome...
Author
Series
[Thrush Green series] volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stranger's arrival in the village stirs up ripples of speculation and interest. The village finds itself paying tribute to the stranger's hero, a missionary born and bred in Thrush Green, and the stranger's presence alters the romantic prospects of Miss Dimity Dean.
97) The shadow house
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Extraordinarily tense and deliciously mysterious, Anna Downes's The Shadow House follows one woman's desperate journey to protect her children at any cost, in a remote place where not everything is as it seems. A HOUSE WITH DEADLY SECRETS. A MOTHER WHO'LL RISK EVERYTHING TO BRING THEM TO LIGHT. Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape her troubled past, she seeks refuge in...
Author
Series
[Thrush Green series] volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Read's fans will be delighted to spend another fine spring in the charming village of Thrush Green. Joan and Edward Young are content in their honey-colored Cotswold stone house, which every-one agrees is the prettiest in the village. But the day comes when Joan's father returns to the house in which he grew up, and the Youngs' tranquility is ruffled by change. There are other small disturbances as well. That formidable woman Ella Bembridge has...
Publisher
UTV Communications
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Hindi
Description
A bright young scientist working at NASA returns to rural India on a quest to find his childhood nanny. He is drawn into her village's life and finds himself searching for answers to questions of progress and development that the village faces.
100) Tucker's countryside
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a city-bred cat and mouse when they go to the country in Connecticut to visit their friend, Chester Cricket.
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