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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.
Author
Series
Farmer books volume 1
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A wordless picture book in which a farmer rescues a baby clown who's bounced off the circus train, and reunites him with his clown family.
Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
8) Then
Author
Series
Once series volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Scorned in her Flatlands village because of a deformed foot, Emmeline Thistle's life changes when she is taken in by Wanderlands dairy farmers and discovers her magical ability to make chocolate, which is more precious and rare than gold or jewels in the kingdom of Anglund.
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 11
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Frederick, a peasant farmer's son who dreams of earning a living using his God-given talent as a woodcarver, falls in love with Adela, a duke's daughter who yearns to prove herself as an artist. Includes discussion questions.
Adela, youngest daughter of Duke Wilhelm of Hagenheim, is never allowed outside of the castle walls. She sneaks away one day to the market disguised as a peasant, and meets a poor farmer with a kind heart. Frederick earns the...
11) Sparrow rising
Author
Series
Skyborn volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
In the Clandoms, everyone is born with wings, with tight-knit communities formed around bird types: Jay, Falcon, Crow. Ellie Meadows dreams of growing up to join the Goldwings -- the famed knights who defend all the people of the Clandoms. It was a Goldwing, after all, who saved her life on that terrible day her parents were killed. There's just one problem: Ellie is a Sparrow, and the Goldwings are almost invariably picked from the higher clans like...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. All around town, signs go up proclaiming No Dogs or Mexicans and No Mexicans Allowed. When Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos in their town of Monteseco, Texas, her whole family becomes a target of repatriation efforts...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Maryrose Wood's [...] middle-grade novel, Alice's Farm, a brave young rabbit must work with her natural predators to save her farmland home and secretly help the farm's earnest but incompetent new owners. When a new family moves into Prune Street Farm, Alice and the other cottontails are cautious. The new owners are from the city; the family and their dog are not at all what the rabbits expect, and soon Alice is making new friends and doing things...
14) Crow & Snow
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Crow, a scarecrow, is lonely standing in the cornfield until the farmer's children build a snowman next to him, starting a years-long friendship.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Zara and her mother, Nadja, have a strained relationship. Nadja just doesn't understand Zara's creative passion for, and self-expression through, photography. And Zara doesn't know how to reach beyond their differences and connect to a closed-off mother who refuses to speak about her past in Bosnia. But when a bomb explodes as they're shopping in their local farmers' market in Rhode Island, Zara is left with PTSD--and her mother is left in a coma....
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"She may be a California farm girl, but seventeen-year-old Maya's vision board is all about Fashion and Fierce--the New York City women's magazine she's been reading since she was ten. As the oldest daughter of Punjabi garlic farmers, though, Maya's path is set, and it's off to Cow camp for the summer. When she lands in the New York City area, Maya learns that her cousin's girlfriend works at Fierce--and realizes that her wildest dreams may just be...
17) Dig
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, and First-Class Malcolm. These are the five teenagers lost in the Hemmings family's maze of tangled secrets. Only a generation removed from being Pennsylvania potato farmers, Gottfried and Marla Hemmings managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now sit atop a seven-figure bank account--wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult children or their...
18) Sauerkraut
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A new quirky-funny book from the author of Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer about a boy whose plans for the summer go sideways when the ghost of his great-great-grandmother demands his attention. HD Schenk is a maker--an inventor, a builder of things. He wants to show everyone what he can do, and his plan is to build his own computer and enter it in the county fair. To earn money for the parts, HD has promised to clean out his uncle's...
Author
Series
Farmer Falgu volume 4
Publisher
Karadi Tales Company Pvt. Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When his daughter loses her kite on the way to the annual kite-flying festival, Farmer Falgu must come up with a clever solution.
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 5
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The animals of Sir Sidney's Circus enter a contest at the Iowa State Fair in hopes of winning a $5,000 prize that could save Farmer Farley's farm and his prize pig, Pablo"--
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