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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
The coming of summer to Appalachia's Zebulon Mountain brings a blossoming in nature as well as in the lives of reclusive wildlife biologist Deanna Wolfe, young hunter Eddie Bondo, transplanted city-girl Lusa Landowski, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors.
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Series
Otis the tractor volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the farmer places a scarecrow in the cornfield, Otis the tractor and the farm animals try to make friends, but the scarecrow remains silent with a sour look on his face throughout the summer and fall.
4) Alida's song
Author
Series
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.
Author
Series
Otis the tractor volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Description
When a puppy gets lost while playing hide and seek on the farm, Otis the friendly little tractor must face his fear of the darkness in order to help his new friend.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Carley Marek takes a hiatus from her job as a reporter and visits her friend Lillian in Amish country, Pennsylvania, where Carley meets Lillian's charming-but shunned-brother-in-law, Dr. Noah Stoltzfus, who is forbidden to help when Lillian's son falls ill, leaving Carley torn between supporting her friend and helping the man she is falling in love with save the young boy.
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Series
Sunrise Cove volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Luna Wright is a lot of things, but sweet and trusting isn’t on the list. However, she’s a sucker for the underdog and a hard-luck story. Adopted at birth, with scant knowledge of her biological family, she’s created her own inner circle, a motley crew which includes her bestie Willow, to help her run the struggling but charming Apple Ridge Farm. With a farm-to-table café as well as a menagerie of rescued animals (complete with a baby goat...
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Series
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English
Description
"First published in 1932, this classic satirical novel tells the story of sensible Flora Poste, who is orphaned at age 19. Leaving the city to go live with relatives in deepest Sussex at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the gloomy and eccentric Starkadder family, headed by reclusive Aunt Ada Doom. Flora's penchant for practicality and organization soon shakes things up. -- Description by Dawn Towery."--from NoveList.
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Series
Ada's house trilogy volume 3
Ada's House novel volume 03
Ada's House novel volume 3
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Ada's House novel volume 03
Ada's House novel volume 3
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Language
English
Description
"Although most Old Order Amish women her age spend their hours managing a household and raising babies, Sylvia Fisher has just one focus - tending and nurturing her family's dairy herd. Then a dangerous connection with an old beau forces her to move, and she decides to pour her energy into reviving another family's failing farm. But after months in rehab, Aaron Blank returns home to sell his Daed's farm and give his parents an easier lifestyle. Can...
10) Hot dog
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dog tries to find a way to cool off on a hot summer day on a farm.
11) Funny Farm
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Edward visits Aunt Josephine, Uncle Earl, and Cousin Judy on their farm and tries to help with all of the chores.
12) A widow's hope
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Language
English
Description
After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown sells her farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and moves her sheep to Holmes County, Ohio. Her deacon brother-in-law finds everything about Hannah vexing and is surprised when his own widowed brother, Seth, takes an interest in the young widow.
13) Bent Road
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Language
English
Description
Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
14) Corn-farm boy
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Language
English
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Description
This is the story of a gentle eleven-year-old boy, Dick, growing up on an Iowa farm with rheumatic fever. He loves all animals and outdoor life, but must now learn to curb his activities.
15) Plain perfect
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Language
English
Description
"A search for peace in Amish country proves anything but simple for a woman on the run from life ... and herself. On the rolling plains of Lancaster County, PA., Lillian Miller is searching for her grandparents' house ... and so much more. After years of neglect and abuse, she's turning to a lifestyle of simplicity among the Amish to find herself. As she discards the distractions of her former life, she befriends the young boy working on her family's...
16) An untamed heart
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Series
Language
English
Description
Norway, 1878. Twenty-year-old Ingeborg Strand is certain she is destined to be an old maid. She's had several suitors but none she deemed worthy of spending her life with. That is, until she meets a university student from Oslo, and feelings stronger than friendship begin to develop between them. But tragedy strikes, and the future begins to look bleaker than ever. Grief settles heavily over Ingeborg, and her mother suggests that she leave Norway...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
"Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world"--Title verso page.
19) A song for Silas
Author
Series
Place called home (Lori Wick) volume 2
Language
English
Description
In late nineteenth-century rural Wisconsin, farmhand Silas Cameron hopes to win the love of Amy Nolan, his boss's daughter, who is ten years his junior.
20) Tending roses
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother's Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that the lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. The family has given Kate the job of convincing Grandma Rose, who's become increasingly stubborn and forgetful, to move off her beloved land and into a nursing home. But Kate knows such a change would break her grandmother's heart. Just when Kate despairs of finding answers,...
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