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Author
Series
Shadow children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jodie loves her grandfather's scary stories, but this summer's visit to the farm becomes a little too frightening when her grandparents' twelve new--and evil-looking--scarecrows come to life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a descriptive list of all the things required to have a Christmas like the author's grandmother had, including farm animals, stories of Scotland, ice skating in the moonlight, and joining friends, family, and neighbors at church on Christmas Eve.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
1956
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylania countryside, where they share many adventures that help restore their spirits and their bond with each other.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.
Author
Series
Meade family stories volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century Vermont, sixteen-year-old Emma confides in her diary both her hopes of becoming a farmer's wife one day and her frustrations with her parents' belief that she is too young to be courted by the handsome Cole Berry.
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.
13) Otis
Author
Series
Otis the tractor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
15) Rainmaker
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It's 1939 and a town in Florida which hasn't seen rain in months, places its hope in a 67-year-old rainmaker from Mississippi who claims she can coax rain from the sky.
16) Sylvia and Aki
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who comes to live on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As Christmas approaches, Katie makes time to help others find the Christmas spirit as the magic wind first switches her with a Christmas tree farm employee, then with an unusual character at North Pole Winter Fun Park.
19) True colors
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
20) Over the river
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the Illinois town where she has lived with her maternal grandparents for the last five of her eleven years, and Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets.
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