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1) Otis
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Otis the tractor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help. On board pages.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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"Following the turn of the seasons, eleven-year-old Eldon traces the daily routines of his life on a farm and his relationship with his older brother, Wayne. During the winter, with little work to be done on the farm, Eldon and Wayne spend the quiet hours with their family, listening to their uncle David's stories. But Eldon soon learns that, although he has lived on the same farm, in the same house with his uncle for eleven springs, summers, and...
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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After years of turmoil, Virginia Lewis is finally satisfied with her life. God has blessed her with the love of her husband Jonathan and four wonderful children, one of which is the daughter of her wayward childhood friend Jenny. Ten-year-old Mindy has grown into a healthy, faith-filled child and a full-fledged member of the Lewis family. But when a desperate Jenny arrives to reclaim her daughter, Virginia and Jonathan find themselves in a battle...
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Minnesota, 1909. When Signe, her husband, Rune, and their three boys arrive from Norway to help a relative clear his land of lumber, they dream of owning their own farm and building a life in the New World. But Uncle Einar and Aunt Gird are hard, demanding people, and Signe and her family soon find themselves worked nearly to the bone in order to repay the cost of their voyage. At this rate, they will never have land or a life of their own. Signe...
7) Alida's Song
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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A fourteen-year old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
8) The yearling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Athenaeum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild...
9) Farmhouse
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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.
10) Thimble summer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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The story of a Wisconsin farm that sings with the happiness and contentment of a small girl whose roots are sinking deep into the soil of a loved place.
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Series
To the rescue series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
All week long the pigs help out around the farm in unexpected ways.
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Series
Otis the tractor volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On Christmas Eve at the farm, a horse faces complications while delivering her foal and Otis the tractor must race through snowy, treacherous woods to bring back Doc Baker before it is too late.
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Wild robot volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
15) An Untamed Land
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Series
Red River of the North volume 1
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
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"After three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund, along with their son, Thorliff, finally arrive at the docks of New York City. It was the promise of free land that fed their dream and lured them from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway in 1880."-Cover.
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"At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. With no family and no ties, she’s drifted from one small Florida town to another since high school, working odd jobs, saving hard, and building a nest egg. Once she finds the right place to settle down, she’ll know. And when she reaches beautiful Palmetto Island, she thinks she may have found it. The small, close-knit island community seems to have everything Alison needs....
17) One of ours
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
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One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather, first published in 1922. The novel won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. One of Ours tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise. The novel...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Following three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, who are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing--and maybe even a second chance--just when they least expect it"--