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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, but a courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family.
Author
Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations.
3) The yearling
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Chinese farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initally devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land, takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realized that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
5) Striking out
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.
6) Ice
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother's farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother.
7) Farm team
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.
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