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Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jodie is staying with her grandparents on their farm and sees the scarecrows "come alive!"
4) The barn
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
7) Park's quest
Author
Publisher
Lodestar Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Book-loving Kenny the rabbit has few friends in his farming community, so when one, bookstore owner George, is sent to kill another, gentle dragon Grahame, Kenny must find a way to prevent their battle while satisfying the dragon-crazed townspeople.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a snowstorm cuts their family farm off from the outside world, Rachel's father sends his daughters to school in another town to finish out the year, but young Rachel begins to wonder if she will ever want to go home again.
10) Dog gone
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2009, 2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Dill refuses to deal with the recent death of her mother until her dog starts running with a pack that is suspected of killing livestock on neighboring farms, and Dill's beloved grandfather becomes so sick that he needs to go the the hospital just like her mother did.
11) Defect
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After spending most of his life in Minnesota foster homes hiding a bizarre physical abnormality, fifteen-year-old David is offered a chance at normalcy, but must decide if giving up what makes him special is the right thing to do.
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.
13) Franny Parker
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Through a hot, dry Oklahoma summer, twelve-year-old Franny tends wild animals brought by her neighbors, hears gossip during a weekly quilting bee, befriends a new neighbor who has some big secrets, and learns to hope.
14) Hummingbird
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In spite of a busy life on the family pumpkin and watermelon farm in Jubilee, Georgia, twelve-year-old March Anne Tanner feels that something is missing, and when Grenna, the grandmother who has helped raise her since her mother died when she was three, also passes on, March Anne finds that she must act on her feelings of loss.
16) Alida's song
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
17) First boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dragged into the political turmoil of a presidential election year, fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for himself and makes it clear whose first boy he really is.
18) Beauty
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about his parents splitting up and moving with his mother to Grandpa's farm, eleven-year-old Luke finds comfort in riding and caring for a horse named Beauty.
19) Pigs might fly
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1982.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A runt piglet born with deformed front feet is coached in swimming by a duck and an otter and, when the pig farm is flooded, becomes a hero.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her father after Black Tuesday, thirteen-year-old Bea convinces Mrs. Scott to take in her and her sister in exchange for farm work and Bea bonds with a seemingly untrainable horse.
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