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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While trying to earn money for a motor bike, fourteen-year-old Joe Pederson becomes involved with the Mexicans who work on his family's farm and develops a better relationship with his father.
43) Job wanted
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arriving at a farm with sore paws and an empty stomach, a dog tries to convince the farmer that he could be just as valuable as a cow, a horse, or a chicken.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Maria and her friend Nathan flee their Nazi-occupied Ukrainian town, hoping to earn wages and avoid starvation as foreign workers in Austria, but they are quickly separated and Maria waits out the war as a farm laborer.
45) A hundred horses
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
48) Fearless
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Hoping to destroy a drug cartel operating south of the border, DEA agent Rodrigo Ramirez disguises himself as an itinerant laborer to take a job on Gloryanne Barnes' farm, but his growing attraction to his fiercely independent employer could endanger hismission.
49) Raised in a barn
Author
Series
Good dog volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Farm puppy Bo introduces a young foal to life on the farm.
50) The farm team
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
52) Dairy queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
53) The home place
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1999, c1948
Language
English
Description
Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers.
This account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to "the home place" at Lone Tree, Nebraska, has been called "as near to a new fiction form as you could get." Both prose and pictures are homely: worn linoleum,
...Author
Series
Good dog volume 1
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rambunctious puppy Bo, who lives with his human family on a farm, loses his dog tag and enlists his barnyard animal friends to help him find it.
Author
Publisher
Tractor Mac
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Pete and Paul the pigs love to eat, and their favorites are junk food and snacks. Tractor Mac and his friends set out to show the pigs a better way of eating and at the same time help their community farmers. Can Pete and Paul change their eating habits? This book has recipes and healthy eating tips for kids"--
57) My 'Antonia
Author
Series
Pub. Date
19uu
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, Antonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, andfamily tragedy, she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm. A fictional record of how women helped forge the communities that formed a nation.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
59) Hope Harbor
Author
Series
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Tracy Campbell never wanted to leave Hope Harbor, Oregon, or the idyllic three-generation cranberry farm where she grew up. But life--and love--altered her plans. When tragedy strikes and changes her plans yet again, she finds herself back in her hometown with a floundering farm to run and a heartbreaking secret. Romance is not on her agenda. Nor is it on Michael Hunter's. The visitor from Chicago has daunting secrets of his own. But when Tracy recruits...