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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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"Laura and Almanzo have married and begun their new life together. They must face storms, sickness, and provide for their new baby, Rose. Their pioneer lives have trained them well, however, and they are determined to succeed"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Love comes softly series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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This story of a frontier family begins where "Love Comes Softly" left off, telling the heartwarming tale of a marriage that began in tragedy but flourished due to the couple's devotion to one another and to God. The husband and wife, Marty and Clark, have been blessed with children, and now it's time for a school to be built for all the town's youth.
43) Sister
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Description
Alena, the eldest child of a large family, remains hopeful despite the hardships of growing up on a farm in the late 1800s.
45) Prairie moon
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Della Ward, a widow, lives alone on her dilapidated farm near a small Texas town. She is filled with guilt about a hateful letter she sent her husband just before he died fighting in the war. When lawman James Cameron arrives at her home, Della learns that he was with her husband when he died. After Cameron answers some of her questions, Della's not sure she wants to know the truth about her husband after all.
46) Leah's pony
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young girl sells her horse and raises enough money to buy back her father's tractor, which is up for auction, in this story of a Depression era farm.
47) A widow's hope
Author
Series
Miller family series volume 1
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After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown sells her farm in Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania and moves her sheep to Holmes County, Ohio. Her deacon brother-in-law finds everything about Hannah vexing and is surprised when his own widowed brother, Seth, takes a interest in the young widow.
48) Farmer duck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a kind and hardworking duck nearly collapses from overwork, while taking care of a farm because the owner is too lazy to do so, the rest of the animals get together and chase the farmer out of town.
49) Bonny's big day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Farmer Skipton is persuaded to enter his old carthorse, Bonny, in the Darrowby Pet Show.
51) The off season
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Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
High school junior D. J. Schwenk staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations.
52) A painted house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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Description
Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy name Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truck-load of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
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Description
A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace--there is some question if it was rape--sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.
56) Endless mercy
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"Madysen Powell has always been a forgiving person, but when her supposedly dead father shows up in Nome, Alaska, her gift for forgiveness is tested. With the recent loss of her mother, she searches for answers, leaning on Granny Beaufort, a neighbor in town, who listens with a kind heart. Still, Madysen is restless and dreams of performing her music around the world. The arrival of a traveling show could prove just the chance she needs, and the manager...
60) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother along to a new zest for life. Years of privation are rewarded on the farm. But when Alexandra falls in love with Carl Linstrum, and her family objects because he is poor, he leaves to seek a different career. After Alexandra's younger...