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1) Farmhouse
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A farmhouse provides the setting for a dozen children to live and grow, and when they leave, another family arrives to fill the house with love again.
4) Big red barn
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Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.
8) Snowy farm
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text portray a family living on a farm with a snowy white house and barn, bundled-up horses and hens, and all they can possibly need.
10) Otis's busy day
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Otis the tractor has a busy day working and playing on the farm. Includes a brief preface with activities for emergent readers.
11) The rough patch
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Farmer Evan and his dog do everything together and, especially, in the garden but when his dog passes away Evan lets his garden fill with weeds until a pumpkin vine brings new hope.
13) Out of the dust
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
14) Ox-cart man
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Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
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From the bestselling author of "Still life with bread crumbs." This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen's novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.
17) My Ántonia
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Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high spirited daugher of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia's lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.
19) Farm
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Describes the activities on a busy family farm from the spring when preparations for planting begin to the autumn when the cats grow winter coats and the cold rains begin to fall.
20) Strawberry girl
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Set in a little-known backwoods region of Florida, Strawberry Girl is the first of the Lenski regional books. The story of Birdie Boyer and how she battled nature, animals, and feuding neighbors to become the best "strawberry girl" the backwoods ever knew.
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