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2) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
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!"
6) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs ... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's only found ... An exciting tale of love and adventure...
9) 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.
11) Prairie winter
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.
12) 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.
13) 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.
15) 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.
16) 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.
18) Strawberry girl
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1987.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a little-known backwoods region of Florida, Strawberry Girl is the first of the Lenski regional books.
19) 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.
20) 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.
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