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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself—an emotionally powerful novel you will never forget.
“Overwhelmingly moving . . . In this novel, where so much is about what vanishes, there is also a deep beating heart, of what also stays.”—The New York Times Book Review
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“Overwhelmingly moving . . . In this novel, where so much is about what vanishes, there is also a deep beating heart, of what also stays.”—The New York Times Book Review
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3) Plainsong
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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National Book Award FinalistA heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to...
7) Farm
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Spring thaw
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Describes spring's gradual arrival on a farm.
10) Bent Road
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Language
English
Description
Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
12) A farm
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
Text and 22 paintings by a noted Swedish artist recreate farm life in rural Sweden in the late 1800's.
13) Toaff's way
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Description
"Toaff is a small squirrel full of big questions. Why must I stay away from the human's house? Why shouldn't I go beyond the pine trees? Why do we fight with the red squirrels across the drive? His sister shrugs -- that's just the way things are. His brother bullies -- because I said so. And the older squirrels scold -- too many questions! Can Toaff really be the only one to wonder why?" -- Amazon.
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Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A posthumous double volume of the influential author's first and last written works, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of his birth, includes the bitter satire "Basic training" and the unfinished final novel "If God were alive today".
15) Wish you well
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Language
English
Description
"Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes -- and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forces of greed and justice...
16) Otis
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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.
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Series
Wild Robot volume 2
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English
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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.
19) The yearling
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Language
English
Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
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Series
[Rats of NIMH volume 1
Language
English
Description
A special 50th anniversary edition of the Newbery Award-winning classic by notable children's author Robert C. O'Brien about a brave mouse who makes unexpected new friends! Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters...
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