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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done, " especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.
5) My Antonia
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
The moving portrait of an orphan boy and immigrant girl who find hardship and love on the American prairie.
6) Hope Harbor
Author
Series
Hope Harbor volume 1
Language
English
Description
Tracy Campbell never wanted to leave Hope Harbor, Oregon, or the idyllic three-generation cranberry farm where she grew up. But life--and love--altered her plans. When tragedy strikes and changes her plans yet again, she finds herself back in her hometown with a floundering farm to run and a heartbreaking secret. Romance is not on her agenda. Nor is it on Michael Hunter's. The visitor from Chicago has daunting secrets of his own. But when Tracy recruits...
7) Family farm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A farm family nearly loses their home until they hit on the idea of raising and selling pumpkins and flowers to supplement their corn and milk sales.
Author
Series
Prairie Legacy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Learning to depend on her faith in God and developing into a strong and reliable woman, Virginia copes with her aging parents and with the disruptive reappearance of Mindy's gypsy-like mother
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself. Filled with insights that are the hallmark of Anna Quindlen's bestsellers, Miller?s Valley is an emotionally powerful story about a family you will never forget. For generations the Millers have lived in Miller's Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life with intimacy and honesty. As Mimi eavesdrops on her parents...
10) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with Antonia, a courageous immigrant woman. Infused with a gracious passion for the land, My Antonia embraces its uncommon subject- - the hardscrabble life of the pioneer woman on the prairie-- with poetic certitude, rendering a deeply moving portrait of an entire community. Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life...
Author
Series
Wild robot volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
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.
12) The good earth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1530L
Language
English
Description
The story of Wang Lung, the family he founded, the gods he implored, and, above all, the earth that sustained him, the land that he made to prosper against the ravages of nature and the savage attacks of bandit tribes.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jodie is staying with her grandparents on their farm and sees the scarecrows "come alive!"
14) Park's quest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War and meets a Vietnamese-American girl named Thanh.
16) Fanny's dream
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Fanny Agnes is a sturdy farm girl who dreams of marrying a prince, but when her fairy godmother doesn't show up, she decides on a local farmer instead.