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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Texas. 1921: A time of abundance. Elsa Wolcott meets Rafe Martinelli and changes the direction of her life. Her only choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. 1934: Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. Elsa Martinelli, like so many of her neighbors, must make an agonizing...
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 2
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amish woman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County, Pennsylvania community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to spare. Eben Troyer...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling novel about a peasant farmer and his family in early twentieth-century China.
The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They have sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property...
The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They have sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property...
5) Farmers
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the clothing, tools, schooling, and work of farmers.
7) Big tractor
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Farmer uses his tractor, Ol' Partner, to do all of his important farm chores, including planting, cultivating, and harvesting.
9) Old Henry
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An action western about a farmer who takes in an injured man with a satchel of cash. Defending a siege, he reveals a gunslinging talent, calling his true identity into question.
11) Basmati blues
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It is a musical comedy that follows Linda Watt, a sheltered but brilliant young scientist who is plucked out of her company's lab and sent to India by her CEO to sell "Rice 9, " a genetically modified rice she's created, unaware that the rice will destroy the Indian farmers she thinks she's helping.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But...
Publisher
Oxmoor House
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Southern Living Farmers Market Cookbook offers recipes-arranged according to season-that make the most of the bounty of fresh ingredients found at local markets, U-Picks, and farm stands. Whether you have your own backyard vegetable patch or pick your produce from the local market, you'll find an abundance of garden-fresh Southern Living recipes that will bring vibrant flavor to the dining table.
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Unaware that a princess in distress and a dragon on the loose are right behind him, Arthur the farmer thinks that the strange noises he keeps hearing are being made by his tractor breaking down.
15) Farm jobs
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In Farm Jobs, beginning readers will follow a farmer throughout the day, learning about the many jobs he or she does on the farm, from feeding and milking animals, to planting, harvesting, and helping deliver newborn farm animals. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they are introduced to daily life on the farm. Photos and further detailed descriptions of daily duties help introduce the content, while...
Author
Publisher
Krause Publications
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"In 1922, the very popular The Farmer's Wife magazine held a contest asking a simple question: "Would you want your daughter to marry a farmer?" Author Laurie Hird has excerpted 55 of the top letters and, using these letters as inspiration, she created 111 traditional 6" quilt blocks and with them created a tribute quilt. Each block is fully illustrated and comes with complete cutting templates on the bonus CD. In addition, she provides complete quiltmaking...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Farmer Brown wants to go camping. He packs up the animals. He packs up his brother, Bob. The chickens want to hike. The cows want to fish. The pigs want to picnic. And Duck? Duck just wants to stay in the truck. How will Farmer Brown bring everyone together?"--
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