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Author
Pub. Date
1972
Description
As a young man, Isak begins to farm some unclaimed land in the hills. He is soon joined by Inger, who bears him a son and becomes his wife. Together the family turns the small holding into a large estate that becomes the envy of the townsfolk who then move to Isak's mountain to try their luck.
82) Tobacco road
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The story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute most of their creditors had given up on them.
84) The desert crop
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
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Description
A coming-of-age novel featuring a farmer's son in 19th century New England. Daniel Stewart wants to be a doctor, but his father won't pay for studies, spending his money on drink and on making babies with his second wife. When the father dies, Daniel must care for the family, which ends his prospects of studies as well as marriage to his love. By the author of The Lady on My Left.
85) The long winter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.
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Drawing heartbreaking beauty out of the simplest of details, Ann Voskamp invites you into her grace--bathed life of farming, parenting, and writing--and deeper still into your own life. Here you will discover a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of living that is fully alive, and a way of becoming present to God that brings you deep and lasting joy.
88) Turkey trouble
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As Thanksgiving Day approaches, Turkey nervously makes a series of costumes, disguising himself as other farm animals in hopes that he can avoid being served as Thanksgiving dinner.
89) Ever constant
Author
Series
Treasures of Nome volume 3
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Description
"She's always determined to be the stable, reliable one. But now her commitment may destroy her. On the surface, Whitney Powell is happy working with her sled dogs and welcoming the new additions to her family through her sisters' marriages and an upcoming birth. But her life is full of complications, including an estranged father, that have her on the edge of losing control. Growing up, she was the strong sister, and she can't give that up now.When...
90) Next of kin
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Pub. Date
2001.
Description
The death of Caro Meredith turns the lives of her grieving husband, in-laws, brother-in-law, and stepdaughter upside down as they all struggle to cope with the loss of a woman who had been the central figure in all their lives.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
92) Patterns of love
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My dear Beth, Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in my native Sweden, life here is different from what I have known. With my parents' blessing, I have taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young, orphaned nieces. It is most unlike me to leave home, even in a temporary manner. But the need is great and Hattie Bridger and the children are so endearing. As for Dirk Bridger, he is...
93) Wish you well
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
After their father's death, two children and their invalid mother head south to the rugged mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. They flourish until the local coal-and gas company comes around conniving to seize their property.
94) To a God unknown
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
On his new ranch in California, Joseph Wayne sees a huge tree as the symbol of his father's spirit. But then one of his brothers, terrified by Joseph's pagan beliefs, kills the tree...
95) Farming
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
An introduction, in simple text and illustrations, to farming and the work done on a farm throughout the seasons.
96) Before the dawn
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Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Carolyn Stevenson and her husband Bob welcome Carolyn's three grandchildren to their Nebraska farm following the accident that killed their mother Denise, who ran away from home as a teenager.
98) The midnight fox
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Tony dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den.
99) Moxie
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Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Thirteen-year-old Drew, determined to help his family hold onto their farm in the drought-stricken Dust Bowl of 1934, stubbornly tends his livestock and refuses to give up hope.