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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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The first day at school is a humorous disaster for newcomer Charlotte. While initially repelled by each other, Charlotte and three other classmates eventually become close friends in spite of themselves ? and discover a mysterious secret tower in Charlotte's house.
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Tales from Maple Ridge volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
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English
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"When his father is hired for a temporary job at the general store, farm boy Logan can't wait to lend a hand. But his eagerness may cause his dad to lose this job. Can Logan's mistake be fixed in time?" -- Provided by publisher.
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Story of the love Mamie and Jock Johnstone have for each other, the deep, trusting love of a happily married couple, and of the love they feel for their farm and their chosen way of life. It is also the story of the more troubled hearts of the younger generation.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
900L
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English
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Featuring a new introduction, this critically acclaimed novel tells the story of India and its people through the eyes of one woman and her experiences in one peasant family in a primitive Indian village. Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never seen, she worked side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from the land that was ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With remarkable fortitude and courage, she...
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"Homesteading [hohm-sted-ing] noun an act or instance of establishing a homestead. the act of loving where you live so much that you actively ignore the fact that your house is trying to kill you on a regular basis. For Kathi Lipp and her husband, Roger, buying a house in one of the most remote parts of Northern California was never part of the plan; many of life's biggest, most rewarding adventures rarely are. Kathi shares the hard-won wisdom she's...
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"Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence farm. They do not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, but Joetta considers her family to be neutral, believing this is simply not their fight. Her opinion...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
380L
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English
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Murphy, a farm terrier, describes a day in his life as he gets fed in the kitchen, hunts mice, goes to the vet, returns to the house for dinner, investigates a noise outside, and retires to the barn for sleep.
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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.
13) Field of screams
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640L
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"Ghost-hunting enthusiast Rebecca Graff isn't happy about being dragged to an Iowa farm to spend the summer with family she barely knows, but when she finds a note stashed in a comic book that belonged to her late father, she must race to uncover a family legacy before it is lost forever--and a tragedy repeats itself"--
14) Farmers
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Simple text and photographs show what it is like to live on a farm.
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"Talk the talk of the country with Julia Rothman's entertaining and informative visual tour of life on the farm. Her drawings, diagrams, step-by-step sequences, and dissections reveal everything from the parts of a milking machine and the anatomy of a pig to how to plow a field and shear a sheep"--P. [4] of cover.
17) The Cat at Night
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410L
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"This beautifully illustrated children's classic follows the farmer's cat on a nighttime journey through fields, farms, forests, and town to see what only he can see after the sun sets. Each scene is shown first as a human would see it at night--dark shapes against a midnight blue sky--and then as the cat sees it in vivid color and profuse detail. This commemorative edition of a book first published in 1969 features a new backmatter tribute to Dahlov...
18) A man's heart
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Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Twice. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her. Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. And now Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling potato farm, with a sister excluded from his will, and with a heart wounded by what she gave up on his behalf. Then cancer takes the life of her best friend, and Jules finds herself caring for two small children. How...
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Sunrise Cove volume 5
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English
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"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 who keeps...
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