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.

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.

Young orphan boy goes to live with an old couple on a farm, where he learns to hunt and fish.

An introduction to horses, what life is like on a horse farm, and what is involved in raising and riding horses.

"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...

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.

"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"--

"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.

"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...

"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...