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81) Piglet and Papa
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Piglet's beloved father chases her away after she plays too rough, all of the barnyard animals try to make her feel better, but Piglet is still afraid that her father no longer loves her.
82) 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.
83) 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
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
Series
Boxcar children volume 34
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their grandfather arranges for them to spend two week at Sunny Oaks, the four Alden children enjoy settling into the routines of farm life but become suspicious about a mysterious horse locked in the stables.
86) Patterns of love
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inga is the Plain Jane of the Linberg sisters, and as the dutiful oldest daughter, she is resigned to a quiet life helping her father with his Lutheran ministry in Iowa. Enter Dirk Bridges, a dairy farmer looking for help in caring for two young nieces and ailing mother. When Inga agrees to be his live-in housekeeper, she really doesn't expect to fall in love with the little girls or their lonely, complicated uncle.
Author
Series
To the rescue series volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
All week long the pigs help out around the farm in unexpected ways.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The modest ranch house where Callie Wyeth grew up looks just the same as she remembers it - right down to the well-worn sheets in the linen closet. But in the years since Callie lived here, almost everything else has changed. Her father, once indomitable, is in poor health. And Callie is a single mother with a beautiful little boy, Henry, who has just been diagnosed with autism. Returning to this quiet New Hampshire community seems the best thing...
90) Dead on the vine
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family's produce farm--much less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm's fallow furrows--but Charlotte's sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, was run through...with a pitchfork? Now, Charlotte is stuck with running the farm in the midst of a murder...
91) 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.
92) Big red barn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follow the animal's day on the farm as they make their noises, play in the grass, and return to the big red barn to fall asleep.
95) 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.
96) Farmer duck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a kind and hardworking duck nearly collapses from overwork, while taking care of a farm because the owner is too lazy to do so, the rest of the animals get together and chase the farmer out of town.
97) 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
Series
Ballad novels volume 4
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning Southern writer Sharyn McCrumb is a best-selling author who's won widespread critical acclaim for her Appalachian Ballad novels. In The Rosewood Casket, a farmer named Randall Stargill has fallen into a coma. As his family gathers to prepare for the inevitable, his four sons work on a handmade casket and their wives sew a quilt to line it. Complications arise, however, when clairvoyant neighbor Nora Bonesteel brings her own disturbing...
100) 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.
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