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81) Punk Farm
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments to perform in a big concert as a rock band called Punk Farm. After a long day of work, Farmer Joe goes home to bed. But meanwhile, back at the barn - Cow sets up her drums. Pig plugs in his amp. Goat tunes his bass. Chicken sets up her keyboards. And Sheep checks the microphone. They are Punk Farm and tonight they're ready to ROCK! With adorable farm animals...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What are three city friends to do when a couple of newly adopted baby poodles turn out to be sheep and some eggs thought to be rotten hatch into ducklings? For Gemma, Meera, and Karl, the answer's easy--turn the abandoned train station into a city farm! Throw in a friendly policeman, a chicken-herding dog, and a pair of runaway goats, and you've got yourself the start of Silver Street Farm--the little farm in the big city. Welcome to Silver Street...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young farm girl tries to catch her favorite chicken, until she learns something about the hen that makes her change her ways. Meet one smart chicken chaser. She can catch any chicken on her grandmother's farm except one - the elusive Miss Hen. In a hilarious battle of wits, the spirited narrator regales readers with her campaign to catch Miss Hen, but this chicken is "fast as a mosquito buzzing and quick as a fleabite." Our chicken chaser has her...
Author
Series
Cold Comfort Farm series volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival...These lively tales will delight anyone who loves Stella Gibbons and her signature wit."--P. [4] of cover.
88) The hired girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl...
89) Said no one ever
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A peaceful vacation turns into a roller coaster ride of family drama. Two handsome men with competing agendas cause mix-ups and betrayal. Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get what you really want in life. Ellie Reed's self-esteem can't take any more of her family's constant criticism and attempts to control her life. But when she rents an Airbnb on a gorgeous farm in Montana, she encounters a whole new set of family drama and finds herself...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sylvie King, now a widow, desperately needs help on her horse farm. What she doesn't need are complications. Unfortunately, she's just hired a man with plenty of them"--
Stoney Ridge. Jimmy Fisher has coasted as long as he could through life on charm and good looks. His smile has no effect on the violet-eyed beauty he met at the Bent N' Dent, the one with that stunning horse. She's offered him a job, but nothing else. The last thing Sylvie Schrock...
91) An untamed land
Author
Series
Red River of the North volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Author
Language
English
Description
A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables ... before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak, and unimaginable greatness. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. Her beloved...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Roseanna Chaldecott spent her life as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan. But when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, something snaps. Unsure of her future, Roseanna heads upstate on one tank of gas and with no plans to return. In the foothills of the Adirondacks, Roseanna discovers the perfect hideout in a ramshackle farm. Its seventy-six acres are rich with possibilities and full of surprises, including a mother and daughter squatting...
Publisher
Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Change is an inevitable part of farming, and growing up on a farm has taught five women how to be strong, adaptable, and continually hopeful. From Montana to Kansas, South Dakota to Wisconsin, [these] five young women weather storms of life by holding to their faith. But can love be found in romances that are as unpredictable as a summer cyclone?" --P. [4] of cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rose is determined and focused, keeping the sheep out of danger and protecting the other creatures on the farm she calls home. But of all those she's looked after since coming to the farm as a puppy, it is Sam, the farmer, whom she watches most carefully. Awoken one cold midwinter night during lambing season, Rose and Sam struggle into the snowy dark to do their work. The ever observant Rose has seen a change in her master of late, ever since Sam's...
Author
Series
Petersheim brothers volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Between work and keeping his little brothers out of trouble, Austin Petersheim barely has time to think, much less court the most popular maidel in town. But if he can establish a local market to direct-sell his family's goods, he'll stand out as a potential husband. He's so grateful for the help of his longtime friend, Hannah Yutzy, who has such practical ideas--and is so easy to talk to. While Austin embarks on his plan, his siblings have a plan...
97) Need you now
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When big-city life threatens the safety of one of their three teenagers, Brad and Darlene Henderson move the family to tiny Round Top, Texas. The adjustment is difficult for the kids, and when Darlene takes an outside job for the first time, tension rises. The widowed father of one of her students is paying too much attention to her. Trouble is, Darlene feels like someone is listening to her for the first time in a long time. If Darlene ever needed...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a dark and lovely winter night, Noah Summers sits before a roaring fire, drifting between sleep and recollection, trying to make sense of a lifetime of psychic visions and his family's tumultuous history on an Indiana farmstead. Decades have passed since Noah first fell in love with Opal, a brilliant but unstable young woman whose penchant for flames separated the couple after just forty-two idyllic days of married life. Despite the challenges...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare Williams heads home to his family's farm in eastern Colorado and finds his widowed, senile father living in squalor. Reconnecting with his high school buddies, Shakespeare hatches a semiserious plan to save the failing farm by robbing the bank that has been slowly sucking the farm dry.
100) A widow's hope
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown is determined to make a new life with her sister's family. But when she sells her farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moves her sheep to Ohio, the wool unexpectedly begins to fly. Simon, her deacon brother-in-law, finds just about everything about Hannah vexing. So no one is more surprised than the deacon when his own brother, Seth, shows an interest in the beautiful young widow.
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