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1) 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.
2) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The 1880s story of a Norwegian family drawn to America by the promise of untold wealth. They go through the tenements of New York, make the dangerous journey overland to North Dakota and labor to carve out a homestead before the arrival of the dreaded winter. The Bjorklunds never dreamed they would face such hardship.
Author
Series
Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josh Jones feels the added responsibility, when his grandfather and uncle sign over the family farm to him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily...
7) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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
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
Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
As graduation nears, Josh Jones worries that he is the only member of his class not to know what he wants to do with his life.
10) Ethan Frome
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenies vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.
11) The off season
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.
12) Alice's tulips
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Sandra Dallas has won rave reviews for this tale set during the Civil War. When Alice Bullock's husband joins the Union Army, the young quilting enthusiast is left to deal with an Iowa farm and an imposing mother-in-law. And then her life turns upside down when she's accused of murder.
13) A painted house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the author's own childhood in rural Arkansas, the story is narrated by a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted.
14) 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.
15) The good earth
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.
16) 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.
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.
18) 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.
19) 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.
Author
Series
The gentle hills volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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