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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
Author
Series
Irish Country books volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delighted to be offered a permanent position with crusty Dr. O'Reilly, Dr. Barry Lavery confronts a crisis when his reputation is threatened by the unexpected death of one of his patients.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume Prequel
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during ablizzard.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
(Disc 1) Season 1: episodes 1-6. Newly widowed Audrey is forced to auction Grantleigh when she finds out that her husband was bankrupt. She is mortified when the buyer is "a Czech grocer" intent on running his Empire from the Manor.
(Disc 2) Season 2: episodes 7-13 Hilarity abounds as Richard imposes new efficiency standards upon farm management and stirs Audrey's protest with his modernizing methods.
(Disc 3) Season 3: episodes 14-20 In this final...
50) Only the cat saw
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As Tessa and her family get ready to settle down for the night, the cat gets ready to explore and sees many things.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the author's haphazard youth as the youngest member of an eccentric, nine-child family on a Maine farm, where she and her siblings were raised in an atmosphere of sibling rivalry, poverty, male chauvinism, and interactions with their farm animals and pets.
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In rural Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light. "What you give in this world," an old man tells his grandson,...
Author
Series
Chester Cricket volume 2
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2012, c1969
Language
English
Description
Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse, both of New York City, go to visit Chester Cricket at the Old Meadow in Connecticut.
Author
Series
Mags and Baxter mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
On Jeep Reed's Wings Ranch near Reno, Jeep, her great-niece, former Wall Street banker Magdalene "Mags" Rogers, and their two dogs King and Baxter investigate a pump company employee's disappearance, along with an environmentalist's shooting "suicide" and the identity of a really cold corpse.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A former Seattle urbanite and restaurateur describes the realities of establishing a profitable farm on Vashon Island, his growing awareness of the relationship between food and its sources, and the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Philippa Pheasant frequently crosses Old Oak Road and, just as frequently, she is "nearly knocked pancake-flat" by a fast-moving vehicle. Her letter asking the village mayor for help brings no reply. But the sight of a crossing guard helping children cross the road to school inspires Philippa, who makes herself a similar uniform and a sign and then helps grateful animals cross Old Oak Road safely. The news travels swiftly, and the mayor's cat, Darling...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author used to live in the busy city where there were buses and trains, and people waiting for buses and trains. Now he lives in the country and jubilantly takes us on a tour of his home, pointing out all the animals that share his space.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Once a world-famous photographer, known for her iconic image, "Still Life with Bread Crumbs," Rebecca Winter has drifted out of the spotlight, and is now more inclined to think of herself as the Artist Formerly Known as Rebecca Winter. As her income dries up, she decides to leave behind the expensive world she knows in New York City, sublet her apartment, and move to a small, inexpensive cabin in the country, where her life falls into a quieter rhythm....
Author
Language
English
Description
From her beginnings as an early blogger, Ree Drummond has become a household name with a passionate following of devoted fans. On her blog, in her magazine, and on her cooking show, Ree shares recipes, tales of her adventures in the country, and stories of everyday life with her four children and cowboy/rancher husband. In this down-to-earth and charming book, Ree shares real-life anecdotes about parenting from her own unique vantage point. While...
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