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4) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the Bergson family and their friends and neighbors. Describes the pioneers' struggle for survival in the barren, underdeveloped Nebraska tableland.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
7) My Antonia
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 a pioneer Bohemian girl. A novel set in Nebraska about pioneering Bohemian farmers & of the courageous heroine, Antonia. First published in 1918. In Willa Cather's own estimation, My Antonia, first published in 1918, was "the best thing I've ever done." An enduring paperback bestseller on Houghton Mifflin's literary list, this hauntingly eloquent classic now boasts a new...
10) Too many turkeys
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chaos ensues when Farmer Fred's wife fertilizes her beautiful garden with an secret ingredient that attracts turkeys from miles around.
13) Serious farm
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Farmer Fred takes his work very seriously and so do his animals, until they decide they need to make the farm more fun and set out to find a way to make Farmer Fred laugh.
15) The box children
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace--there is some question if it was rape--sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.
17) Barnyard big top
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Uncle Julius visits his sisters' farm bringing his Two-Ring Extravaganza along, he livens up everything.
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
For generations the Millers have lived...
20) Funny Farm
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Edward visits Aunt Josephine, Uncle Earl, and Cousin Judy on their farm and tries to help with all of the chores.
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