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An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," convincing the farmer and surrounding community that Wilbur is no ordinary animal and should be saved. In this story of friendship,...
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English
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Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of a China that was now in a contemporary classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In the Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the...
3) Otis
Author
Series
Otis the tractor volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 x 29 cm.
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.
4) On the farm
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text and woodcut and watercolor illustrations introduce the animals found on a family farm.
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
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Language
English
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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.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time--and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On a late-night shift, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called to the scene of an apparent suicide--an old man found hanging from the rafters in his dilapidated barn. But evidence quickly points to murder and...
9) Thunder cake
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms. Includes a cake recipe.
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English
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"The only hardcover edition of Jane Smiley's most famous novel--King Lear on an Iowa farm--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. With a new introduction. This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires nothing more than for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
631 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty routine--up at dawn, off to work, lather, rinse, repeat. But everything changes one sun-washed summer with two dramatic homecomings: Griffith Burnett--Tulpen Crossing's prodigal son, who's set his sights on Kelly--and Olivia, her beautiful, wayward and, as far as Kelly is concerned, unwelcome sister. Tempted by Griffith, annoyed by Olivia, Kelly is overwhelmed by the secrets that were so easy to keep...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 6
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Nancy becomes suspicious of a secret society and is drawn to investigate.
Author
Series
To the rescue series volume 1
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six days a week the chickens help the Greenstalk family and their animals recover from mishaps that occur on the farm, but they need one day to rest.
16) Necessary lies
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her sister's mental illness and her own epilepsy, Ivy realizes they might need more than she can give. Jane Forrester, Grace County's newest social worker, doesn't realize just how much her help is needed. Drawn in by the Hart women, she begins to discover the dark secrets of the...
17) Blue chicken
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An enterprising chicken attempts to help an artist paint the barnyard and accidentally turns the whole picture blue.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 7
Publisher
Whitman
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
159 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The boxcar children uncover a double mystery involving an old friend of Aunt Jane's.
20) How kind!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Edition
1st U.S. board book ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Hen gives Pig an egg, she sets off a chain of events that brings kindness to all of the animals on the farm. On board pages.
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