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The tale of a passionate, independent woman and her three suitors, Far from the Madding Crowd tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene and her relationships with the devoted Gabriel Oak, the dashing Sergeant Troy, and the reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr. Boldwood. Through her wayward nature and a winding path of events propelled by Thomas Hardy's recurring feminist themes, Bathsheba is led to tragedy and, finally, true love. Written in 1874, Far from...
3) Farmer boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
4) O pioneers!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Cather presents the story of the Nebraska prairie. Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, is devoted to the land and suffers the hardships of prairie life.
6) Full service
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In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
8) Saving Marty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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"When Lorenzo adopts a runt piglet destined for auction, an unexpected, life-changing friendship forms"--
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Mildred Armstrong Kalish's Little Heathens is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
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The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family --a minister, his wife, and four sons-- who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.
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Boxcar children volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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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 a blizzard.
12) One of ours
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
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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: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Autumn of 1986 in the Ozarks finds eleven-year-old April Grace adjusting to middle school, coping with her mother's difficult pregnancy, helping Isabel with the church play, and trying to figure out why the new boy at school will not leave her alone.
14) The yearling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
15) Prairie Evers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Prairie Evers is finding that socialization isn't all it's cracked up to be. She's been homeschooled by her granny and has learned the most from traipsing through nature. But now she has to attend public school, and feels just like her chickens--cooped up and subject to the pecking order. School is a jolt for Prairie until she meets Ivy, her first true friend. But while raising chickens and the great outdoors have given Prairie wisdom and perspective,...
16) Return to sender
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
17) Farmer duck
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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When a kind and hardworking duck nearly collapses from overwork, while taking care of a farm because the owner is too lazy to do so, the rest of the animals get together and chase the farmer out of town.
18) Anna on the farm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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In the summer before World War I, nine-year-old Anna is happy to spend a week at her aunt and uncle's Beltsville, Maryland, farm until she meets Theodore, who calls her a "city slicker" and spurs her to prove that she's just as clever and brave as he is.
19) Walden
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In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a cabin by Walden Pond. With the intention of immersing himself in nature and distancing himself from the distractions of social life, Thoreau sustained his retreat for just over two years. The work is considered a paean to the virtues of simplicity and self-sufficiency.
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