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At the Foot of the Rainbow uses fishing as a backdrop to tell the story of Jimmy Malone and Dannie MacNoun, who is in love with Jimmy's wife, Mary. The characters, setting, dialogue/dialect, and virtues are classic Porter; the issues and values are timeless; and the thought-provoking manner in which Stratton-Porter concludes her story leave one considering their own lives on a deeper level.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Twelve-year-old Libby, the daughter of an Indiana cattle farmer, raises two calves in hopes of winning the annual steer competition at the county fair, but fails to follow her father's warning about developing a bond with animals that are destined to be sold at auction.
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Lorene Burkhart was a pioneer in the corporate world, becoming the first woman named head of a major department for Borden's Foods, that of New Product Development. She held numerous other positions in American corporations before beginning to write, editing an Indianapolis magazine and founding her own publishing company. This book traces this philanthropic civic leader's history as a small town farm girl near Vincennes Indiana and is full of
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Little Sister, the twelfth and youngest of the Stanton children, is not regarded at her birth as a particularly welcome addition to the family, but as the years pass she proves herself to be a blessing,especially when she is instrumental in bringing together her beloved brother Laddie and their neighbor, Pamela Pryor.
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2007
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Here's the child's-eye view of Decker, Indiana, with raising baby chicks, twilight children's games, holidays like Decoration Day (now vanished), every kind of delicious food: date pudding, bread pudding, hermits, pocketbook rolls with home-churned butter. The book is a feast in itself celebrating the richness of small town farm culture.
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Set in the 1990s in the farm country of north central Indiana, Kurtz's first novel tells the story of Arthur Conason and his return to his family's abandoned farmhouse. South of the Big Four explores a dying profession- independent farming, which cannot compete with industrial farming. Kurtz was born in Urbana, Illinois; he spent one fall and three springs working for his uncle's farming operation in northern Indiana.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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This gritty tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming accident. More than anything, Doug wants to shed his nickname, Pig Boy, and grow up to be a hog man like his father. His older brother Derrick reads pulp novels to him each night as he soaks his remaining fingers in Epsom salts. His brothers urge him to "flip the Wicked...
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