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1) My Ántonia
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Series
Language
English
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Description
My Ántonia (pronounced with the accent on the first syllable of "Ántonia"),[1] first published 1918, is considered one of the greatest novels by American writer Willa Cather. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, the companion volumes being O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.
The book's narrator, Jim Burden, arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same train as the Shimerdas, when he goes to live with...
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself—an emotionally powerful novel you will never forget.
“Overwhelmingly moving . . . In this novel, where so much is about what vanishes, there is also a deep beating heart, of what also stays.”—The New York Times Book Review
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“Overwhelmingly moving . . . In this novel, where so much is about what vanishes, there is also a deep beating heart, of what also stays.”—The New York Times Book Review
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4) Farmers
Author
Series
Publisher
Bullfrog
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This photo-illustrated book for early readers explains what farmers do and how they work to raise crops and animals."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The coming of summer to Appalachia's Zebulon Mountain brings a blossoming in nature as well as in the lives of reclusive wildlife biologist Deanna Wolfe, young hunter Eddie Bondo, transplanted city-girl Lusa Landowski, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Burdock, a young barn cat, sneaks into the house to get warm, he hears that the farmer, Dewey Baxter, has terrible plans that'll endanger all the animals, and he leads them in an attempt to escape before it's too late.
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 73
Publisher
Noguer
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
Español
Description
Tom dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm, until he finds a black fox and tracks her to her den.
10) The yearling
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
11) Out of the dust
Author
Language
English
Description
In free verse, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Great Depression.
13) Otis
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help.
14) Blue Goose
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When Farmer Gray goes away for the day, Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick, and White Duck get together and paint their black and white farm.
15) Wish you well
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.
17) El chupacabras
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Farmer Hector and his daughter Carla seek help from the monstrous chupacabra when their goats become giants and threaten the town.
20) Peaches: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2006.
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
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