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1) One of ours
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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From mending fences to seedlings and combines, life on the farm changes from season to season. Discover what farmers do in winter. Learn how crops are harvested in fall. Real-life photographs follow the seasons and capture the beauty of a year on the farm.
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"Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence farm. They do not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, but Joetta considers her family to be neutral, believing this is simply not their fight. Her opinion...
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English
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"Helen Rebanks's beautifully written memoir takes place across a single day on her working farm in the Lake District of England. Weaving past and present, through a journey of self-discovery, the book takes us from the farmhouse table of her Grandmother, and into the home she now shares with her husband, four kids and an abundance of animals. Helen shares, with rare truthfulness, her life in days, sometimes a wonder and a joy but others a grind to...
7) Farmer boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Story of farm life before farms were mechanized and electrified.
"This farmer boy lived in northern New York about 1868. School days, beginning when he was nine years old, work on the farm and some innocent pleasures rounded out his life." Wis. bul.
8) In the barn
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Examines the barn as the center of farm life for early settlers of North America.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain.
Since its publication in 2007, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle has captivated readers with its blend of memoir and journalistic investigation. Newly updated with original pieces from the entire...
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"To keep her home...she must marry! When Elizabeth Morsely's beloved farm is sold to a genteel London family, she's stunned to learn that she's part and parcel...as a bride! This country girl believes she'll have nothing in common with her city groom, William Grant, except he's as reluctant to wed as she is. They agree to a platonic partnership, until Elizabeth glimpses the pure heart behind William's aristocratic demeanor. Might their arranged marriage...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Horace Homer Higgins III despises dirt. And the outdoors. And ducks. But when his person, Eleanor, moves to a farm called the Homestead, the anxious Boston Terrier is forced to adapt. As if that isn't enough to strain his nerves, Ellie adopts a perpetually cheerful potbellied pig named Bunwinkle to be his baby sister. Bunwinkle is delighted to be on the farm despite the stuffy demeanor of her new canine brother. She's sure she'll crack his shell eventually--no...
14) Lizzie and Emma
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Buggy spoke volume 2
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English
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"This is the second book in the Buggy Spoke series, which follows Lizzie through her tumultuous teenage years as she struggles to mesh her hot temper and willful ways with her Amish faith." -- Amazon.com.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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From the cranberry bog to the Thanksgiving table, join Sam and his family as they harvest a classic American fruit. When the vines hang heavy with berries that the autumn winds have turned deep red, it's time for cranberries, and Sam is finally old enough to help with the harvest! THis charming, lyrical pciture book follows Sam and his family as they raise the water in the bog, pick the cranberries, and gather the fruit for processing. It's a story...
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Alafair Tucker mysteries volume 9
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English
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Boynton Oklahoma's Alafair Tucker finds time while caring for relatives sick with the Spanish flu to investigate the deaths of two neighbors. With death so commonplace, most have assumed that influenza was the cause, but Alafair suspects foul play. Without the aid of the only witness, a young girl stunned into silence, It is up to Alafair and the new town doctor to discover the truth.
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English
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"Never knowing his parents, eleven-year-old Stewie Little and his brother have been raised on a farm by their older sister. Stewie steadfastly tends the chickens left by his beloved late grandmother. And every day Stewie goes door to door selling fresh eggs from his wagon--a routine with a surprise just around the corner. It's his new customer, Marilyn. She's prickly and guarded, yet comfortably familiar--she reminds the grieving Stewie so much of...
20) A prairie year
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Tundra
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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