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1) Beauty
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[c1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about his parents splitting up and moving with his mother to Grandpa's farm, eleven-year-old Luke finds comfort in riding and caring for a horse named Beauty.
3) Peeled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
6) Stella
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stella used to be a bomb-sniffing dog, but after a terrible accident, she goes to live on a small family farm to recover from her fear of loud noises.
7) Little Joe
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Eli raises his first bull calf and looks forward to showing it at the county fair.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old aspiring writer Louisa considers traveling the world with her globetrotting parents, but friendship with George helps her to see her grandparents' farm on Deer Island in a new light.
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.
10) 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 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.
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.
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.
14) Shake It Off
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Bria is not happy about being stuck on her aunt and uncle's dairy farm for the summer. Milking cows alongside her cousin Wren? No thanks. Instead, she sticks to mixing up milkshakes in the creamery, where she starts crafting over-the-top shakes like the ones she loved back home in Chicago. Wren, and the customers, aren't impressed. Everyone thinks Bria is just a snobby city girl. There is one person who appreciates the sweet, cold treats: Gabe, her...
15) Angus and Sadie
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Angus and Sadie, two siblings that are of mostly border collie heritage, are adopted by a young couple and start living on a Maine farm, where they begin to learn sheep herding and come to appreciate how they are different from each another.
Author
Publisher
Audio Bookshelf,LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jethro, who is nine years old when the first April blooms, must run the farm in southern Illinois almost alone during the Civil War. Dangers on the home front prove as exciting as those in battle.
17) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Almanzo wishes for just one thing--his very own horse--but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.
18) Charlotte's web
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A color-illustrated edition of "Charlotte's Web," the story of Wilbur, a little pig whose destiny as Christmas dinner for the farmer's family is changed when Charlotte, a clever spider, decides to help him.