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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream-and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But when...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The annual Corn Maze Festival is coming and everyday the chickens, cows, and Duck help Farmer Brown--with a few bribes--to create a special Statue of Liberty corn maze, and every night Duck works hard recreating his own surprise.
Author
Series
West Country trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"Two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in England before World War I"--
7) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Farmer Brown and the animals are invited to Farm Day at school, he instructs them to be on their best behavior, forgetting that school can be like a barnyard.
10) Farmland
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
Examines the lives of several young farmers as they take on the daily challenges of running their family farms.
12) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who is the embodiment of the pioneer spirit.
15) My Antonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
Author
Publisher
Beavers Pond Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a small dairy farm, Christmas Eve of 1950, three children, hoping Santa will visit their house, go to the barn to help with the evening milking. While ten-year-old Jimmy, who doubts Santa's existence, guides Maggie, nine, and Joey, five, through feeding calves and teaching a newborn calf how to drink from a pail, Santa accidentally leaves behind a surprise that transforms Jimmy into a permanent believer.
17) Courting Cate
Author
Series
Courtships of Lancaster County volume 1
Language
English
Description
Cate Miller has scared off every suitor. Pete Troyer has never failed at anything. Could he be the one to finally tame the fiery Cate?
Author
Publisher
Beaver's Pond Press
Pub. Date
2009, 2002.
Language
English
Description
Young Nancy loves farm animals, especially cows, and when she explains to her kitty, Dusty, what she would do if she were a dairy farmer, her detailed imagination takes them both through an adventure in which Nancy is the hero.
19) Barn red
Publisher
Questar Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A farmer refuses to sell his land to a developer.
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