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3) Farmer boy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Story of farm life before farms were mechanized and electrified.
"This farmer boy lived in northern New York about 1868. School days, beginning when he was nine years old, work on the farm and some innocent pleasures rounded out his life." Wis. bul.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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. 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. Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and...
6) Skylark
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
8) Stella
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Stella used to be a bomb-sniffing dog, but after a terrible accident, she goes to live on a small family farm to recover from her fear of loud noises.
As a puppy, Stella was trained to use her powerful beagle nose to sniff out dangerous chemicals and help her handler keep people safe. During a routine security inspection, Stella misses the scent of an explosive. The sound of the blast is loud and scary. Unable to go back to work because of her anxiety,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
A storm is brewing and Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are hurrying home for bed. But who can sleep with all that racket? It's not long before other friends show up seeking safety from the storm. Thunder and lightening sure can be scary, but it's easy to be brave together. When the clouds roll on and the sky is clear, it's all aboard for a bedtime ride! Beep! Beep! Shhh.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
She may be a miracle, but she's no proper young lady! It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it's particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson just...
13) Hot dog
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Formats
Description
A dog tries to find a way to cool off on a hot summer day on a farm.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Follows the busy lives of Mr. and Mrs. Farmer on their farm throughout the seasons of the year, including turning over the soil in winter, caring for the baby animals born in spring, watering crops in the summer, and apples and wheat in fall. --
16) Moses the kitten
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A bedraggled orphaned kitten is nursed back to health on a Yorkshire farm and when he recovers turns out to have a very unusual idea about the identity of his mother.
20) Farmers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"This photo-illustrated book for early readers explains what farmers do how they work to raise crops and animals"--
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