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Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
How big can a pumpkin grow? When is the best time to plant corn? Melissa Lehman knows. She lives on a crop farm and tells readers about the fun, and work, that goes into planting, growing, picking, and selling crops.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want. Farmer Brown thinks it's odd when he hears the sounds of typing coming from the barn, but his troubles really begin when his cows start leaving him notes. First they demand better working conditions, then they stage a strike!
Author
Series
Last Hundred Years A Family Saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
25) The four winds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
26) Out of the dust
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
28) Charlotte's web
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Author
Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
To raise money for a down payment on a new tractor for Mr. and Mrs. Farmer, cow friends Minnie and Moo organize the First Annual Hoot, Holler, and Moo Talent Festival.
30) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
31) Home at last
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Texas rancher Flynn Bradshaw has his work cut out for him. His sister-in-law, Sunday, is finally home after the car crash that killed her husband and left her critically injured. But Flynn still has to get her failing ancestral farm up and running while looking after his six nieces and nephews. He prefers wide open spaces and working solo. Yet as he tries to get the grieving Sunday to care about her life again, he's finding a chance for love that's...
36) A northern light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest.
37) Prairie Evers
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Prairie is happy being home-schooled and raising her flock of chickens, so transferring to regular school is a big change, but fortunately she meets a wonderful friend"--
38) Tractor
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Bks
Pub. Date
[c1995]
Physical Desc
unp col illus
Language
English
Description
A farmer uses his tractor to prepare the soil, plant seeds, harvest corn, and haul it away to be sold
39) Just Like Mama
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Susie Mae wants to be just like her mama, so she follows her around all day trying to do all the chores mama does on their Amish farm.
40) Strawberry girl
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1945, in Florida, ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family struggle to make their new farm prosper despite heat, droughts, cold snaps, and rowdy neighbors.