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61) Clover
Author
Publisher
Milky Way Picture Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Around Clover's family's goat farm, there are plenty of things to do on any given day, from picking blueberries to collecting clams. But making decisions, even choosing something to do, is a great source of hesitation for young Clover -- that is, until one day, when the child's beloved goat, Peony, wanders too far from the farm. In order to bring Peony back home safely, Clover will have to learn to act quickly and decisevely.
Author
Series
American Girl. Forever friends volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Keiko's aunt invites her, and her friends Madison, Jasmine, and Sofia to spend two weeks on her farm, the girls can't wait to milk a cow, feed the hens, and help take care of the other animals. There's even a pony who's expecting a baby! But when the foal is born, she has to wear braces on her legs to help her walk. If the braces don't work, the pony might need surgery. Keiko will do whatever it takes to help the pony, but will it be enough?"--Page...
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
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Fall has come, and what better way to celebrate than a field trip to the pumpkin patch! From 20 name tags on coats all the way down to 1 last pumpkin song, the class counts everything in sight! Follow along in this sweet, rhyming picture book, with interactive counting on each spread. Count the 8 orange pumpkins, tall, 7 yellow pumpkins, bumpy, and much more! Including autumnal illustrations and pumpkin facts, this book is perfect for the fall season...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Goat Girl--an adventurous goat--lives on Humdrum Farm, a place where everything is ordinary, and she's looking for some excitement. When she meets Merle--a bull--she mistakes him for a cowboy since he's both a cow and a boy. Cowboys aren't ordinary so Goat Girl can't wait to introduce herself. "HOWDY COWBOY!" An annoyed Merle insists he's not a cowboy. But will this not-a-cowboy change his mind when his rootin'-tootin' dream has a chance to come true?...
66) Dragon pet
Author
Series
Diary of a Roblox Pro volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's time for another field trip! Ari and his class visit a farm where they are entrusted with an egg to adopt. This is a big responsibility for Ari but he's excited nonetheless. Everyone's egg hatches into harmless animals, except for Ari's. His hatches into a baby dragon! Cool, right? Wrong! As the dragon grows, Ari realizes he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Ari and his friends have to figure out a way to capture the dragon before it...
Author
Series
Who let the gods out? volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Elliot Hooper has many problems: his mother has been behaving strangely, they are in danger of loosing their farm to a mean-spirited developer, and he is failing at school, so when he finds a girl in the cowshed, and she announces that she is Virgo, an immortal constellation, it just seems part of the normal chaos--but soon he is swept up in the Gods' hunt for prisoner 42, Thanatos, Daemon of Death, whom Elliot has set free from his...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"¡Llegó la primavera a la granja! Bizcocho tiene muchas ganas de conocer a todos los animales nuevos. Se hace amigo de los cerditos, los corderos, los pollitos ¡y hasta las llamitas!" -- Jacket flap.
It's spring on the farm. Join the beloved little yellow puppy, Biscuit, as he makes friends with the piglets, the lambs, the chicks, and even the little llamas!
Author
Series
Jasmine Green rescues volume 10
Publisher
Walker Books, a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jasmine Green and her best friend, Tom, discover that their neighbor Mr. Hobson is moving to an assisted-living facility. Jasmine wants to bring his donkey, Mistletoe, to live at Oak Tree Farm. Caring for a donkey is lots of work, though, especially with Jasmine's younger brother around. But when the Christmas play needs help, Jasmine realizes she may have the perfect understudy in mind.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Life is hard for Willa, Grace and Freya, and their three younger sisters. Six motherless girls working a farm, living in fear of their cruel father and the superstition that obsesses him - the Curse of Six Daughters. With the arrival of the mysterious Full Moon Fayre, there's a chance for the eldest girls to steal a moment's fun, but the day the fayre moves on, Grace vanishes. Willa goes after her, following a trail that leads into the dangerous Lost...
71) Cheeky Chick!
Author
Publisher
Boxer Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Cheeky Chick can't help being cheeky -- he just wants to explore. But there's a crafty fox about...Can Cheeky Chick make it back to the henhouse safely? A funny, characterful picture book by an award-winning author that children will want to read again and again."--Back cover.
'Five little chicks hear Mother Hen say, "Play near the henhouse. Don't go away." Four little chicks say, "Yes, okay!" But one little chick says, "Phooey!" Cheeky Chick is...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"In Maryrose Wood's [...] middle-grade novel, Alice's Farm, a brave young rabbit must work with her natural predators to save her farmland home and secretly help the farm's earnest but incompetent new owners. When a new family moves into Prune Street Farm, Alice and the other cottontails are cautious. The new owners are from the city; the family and their dog are not at all what the rabbits expect, and soon Alice is making new friends and doing things...
Author
Series
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Each child is thinking of farm animal . . . What do they look like? What do they eat? And what noise do they make? Follow the simple clues, make a guess, then spot the animal hiding in the beautifully illustrated scene and pull the slider to reveal the answer! With four favourite farm animals to find - and animal noises too!"--
"Young readers can read the clues, make a guess and pull the slider to reveal the animal hiding--and to see if they were...
Author
Series
Jasmine Green rescues volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jasmine Green's mom is a veterinarian and her dad is a farmer. She has spent her life surrounded by animals. So when she sees animals that need rescuing, she knows just what to do. While walking in the woods, Jasmine and her best friend, Tom, find a nest of orphaned duck eggs. The eggs need lots of care. Hatching them is hard work. Can Jasmine keep the eggs warm and safe? With a little love and luck, the Green family farm will have a fluffy duckling...
75) The dam
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
''This is a true story. It was told to me by Mike and Kathryn Tickell. Kielder Water is the largest artificial lake in the UK. It is in North Northumberland, a wild an beautiful place, rich in folk music, story and legend. It was created in the late 70s and early 80s. A great dam was constructed across the Kielder Valley, a place of farms, a school, several homesteads and a stretch of the Border Counties Railway. The valley took two years to fill...
Author
Publisher
Ivy Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nancy and Jake are farmers. They raise their cows and pigs, and grow their crops. They use a lot of big machines to help them, and spray a lot of chemicals to get rid of the weeds and the pests. That's what all good farmers do, isn't it? And yet, there is no wildlife living on their farm. The animals look sad. Even the trees look sad! One day, Nancy has an idea... what if they stopped using all the machines, and all the chemicals, and instead they...
78) Tomorrow's farm
Author
Series
Publisher
Duopress, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The day starts early on the future farm, where smart tractors plow the land and robots plant the seeds. Our farmer gets ready to explore her land with a drone, while cows are happily pasturing in the fields. This is not Old MacDonald's farm. This is a farm of the near future, where vegetables will grow in vertical structures and fruit is carefully picked by robotic arms! And at the end of the book, it all comes together at home, where a family enjoys...
Author
Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"¡Es la primera vez de City Fox en el pa̕s y tiene mucha hambre! '¿Quǐn va a cenar?' grųe, lamǐndose los labios. Asustados por su ingenio, los animales de granja idean un plan salvaje y loco para engąarlo. ¿Pero pueden burlar a ese zorro de la ciudad? Un libro hilarante sobre un zorro muy hambriento y despiadado "- Siempre por editorial.
"It's City Fox's first time in the country and he's super-duper hungry! 'Who's for dinner?' he growls,...
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Pupkin is Lemon Bird's new best friend on the farm! They LOVE exploring and playing games. But when a quick nap in the back of a truck leaves these buds stranded and far from home, they'll need to do some quick thinking to find their way back. On their journey, Lemon Bird and Pupkin stick together and lend a hand to the many new friends they meet, even the mischievous Keylime. After all, helping others is easy! it's finding their way home that's...
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