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Author
Series
To the rescue series volume 4
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When something goes wrong on the farm, Ernie the duck is determined to help out, but no matter how hard he tries, nothing goes quite as he plans.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Hazel knows a lot about the world. That's because when she's not hanging with her best friend, taking care of her dog, or helping care for the goats on her family's farm, she loves reading through dusty encyclopedias. But even Hazel doesn't have answers for the questions awaiting her as she enters eighth grade. What if no one at her new school gets her, and she doesn't make any friends? What's going to happen to one of her moms, who's pregnant again...
44) Mudbound
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Language
English
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In post-World War II Mississippi, two families, one white and one black, struggle to survive in the Jim Crow south.
It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm-a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not-charming, handsome,...
Author
Series
Claude books (Alex T. Smith) volume 4
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A walk in the country turns into a busy day on the farm when Claude ends up mucking out the pigs, feeding the chickens, and lassoing a fearsome bull!"--
47) Modern Life
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon is renowned for his documentation of the French countryside. In Modern Life he casts an affectionate and irreverent eye on a small community of farmers as they are confronted by the problems and challenges the contemporary world brings. Treated with equal suspicion, strangers and women are gradually accepted into the fabric of the farming life so as to sustain a way of life that celebrates the traditions...
48) Toaff's way
Author
Publisher
A.lfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Toaff is a small squirrel full of big questions. Why must I stay away from the human's house? Why shouldn't I go beyond the pine trees? Why do we fight with the red squirrels across the drive? His sister shrugs--that's just the way things are. His brother bullies--because I said so. And the older squirrels scold--too many questions! Can Toaff really be the only one to wonder why?--Amazon
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about a family that moves to the countryside, adopts a baby lamb named Albert, wonders if Albert needs a flock of his own before realizing that they have always been Albert's flock.."--
After moving to the country, Ila and her family have lots of pets. But they knew nothing about caring for a baby lamb. It's a lot of work! Ila loves Albert. He's cute, but he's a troublemaker. Can Ila keep her baby lamb safe and happy? -- adapted from...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable-and plunged the world into a dark age humanity was unprepared to face... Michael Pound was flying over Idaho en route to the holiday home of his passengers when the plane's engines inexplicably died, forcing a less than perfect landing in the wilderness. And as Michael leads his...
51) Look out, Mouse!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Farmer Fred forgets to feed the horse, a mouse helps out and later, when the mouse is in trouble, the horse repays his kindness.
52) Yonie wondernose
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A curious Amish boy who lives on the family farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shares a wonderful secret with his father.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Language
English
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"Fall is here, with all its wonderful visual delights--not just colors, but shapes! This clever concept book follows a family on a trip to a pumpkin patch and invites children to pick out shapes from the seasonal scenery--apple bushel circles, square hay bales, diamond kites in the autumn sky! Felicia Sanzari Chernesky's sweet verses are perfectly complemented by Susan Swan's gorgeous collage-inspired art."--Publisher description.
Author
Series
Silver Street Farm volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Gemma, Meera, and Karl are busier than ever preparing for the grand opening at Silver Street Farm. But just when the farm is about to open to the public, the turkeys escape, and the sheep are missing as well. The three friends set out to find the culprits and the escapees.
55) Big bug
Author
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Beginning with a bug, various objects are revealed as being big and small in comparison with other objects on a farm under the big, big sky.
56) Railroad Hank
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
On his way to visit Granny Bett, who is feeling blue, Railroad Hank stops at the farms of several friends and, misunderstanding their offers to help, winds up with a trainload of crazy cargo.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
A lost masterpiece of cinema, now restored and available for the first time in years. An ode to rural France and the simple joys of life, Dominique Benicheti captures the daily routine and rituals of his cousin Jules, a blacksmith, living with his wife, Felice, on a small farm in the French countryside.
59) Root Hog or Die
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From early Colonial times, the rural hilltowns of New England have been home to generations of dairy farmers. They earned their living through a remarkably varied combination of seasonal activities and incessant daily chores - maple sugaring, plowing, planting, cultivating, haying, logging, clearing fields, building stone walls, mending fences, harvesting crops, cutting, splitting and stacking firewood, breeding, doctoring, trading and slaughtering...
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