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First published in 1917, "Understood Betsy" is the well-known children's story by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The prominent social activist, educational reformer, and prolific author is famous for bringing the Montessori style of schooling to the United States. Her popular novel "Understood Betsy" is the story of a scrawny young 9-year-old orphan by the name of Elizabeth Ann who relocates from her city home to live with her cousins, the Putneys, on a...
3) One of ours
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The winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, this novel by Willa Cather follows the son of a successful farmer and a dearly religious mother who, despite his destiny to live a comfortable life, continues to ail under the pressure of his father's success. Claude Wheeler is living the typical college life at Temple College, a Christian university in the area. After failing to convince his parents to send him to a state school, Claude slowly begins to adjust...
5) Hot dog
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A dog tries to find a way to cool off on a hot summer day on a farm.
6) Honkers
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While staying at her grandparents' farm until the birth of her mother's baby, homesick Betsy learns a lesson about independence when she witnesses the birth and migration of a gosling.
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Josh Jones realizes his family isn't typical, but it's the only life he's ever known. Aunt Lou, Gramps, Uncle Charlie, Grandpa--they all have shaped the young man he has become. But as he grows into manhood, Josh begins to face important questions about life, love, and faith. Three million books sold in the series!
9) Punk Farm
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At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments to perform in a big concert as a rock band called Punk Farm.
11) Farm-fresh cats
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A farmer is surprised to discover that he has grown a crop of very unusual cats instead of cabbages.
12) A widow's hope
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A bright new voice shares a tender love story set in the rolling green fields of Ohio Amish country.
After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown is determined to make a new life with her sister's family. But when she sells her farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moves with her sheep to Ohio, the wool unexpectedly starts to fly. Her deacon brother—in—law finds just about everything about Hannah vexing. When his widower brother shows interest...
14) Deep Sea Farm
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Take a journey to the bottom of the sea with the gentle merman farmer who tends fields of sea cucumbers and sea beans with the help of his two seahorses.
15) Brave pig
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When the Boss disappears into the scary cellar, Babe the pig thinks that he is in danger and goes to the rescue.
16) Sky dancer
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One winter morning Jenny discovers a hawk has come to the farm, and she develops a rapport with the graceful sky dancer.
17) Wish you well
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The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.
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Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from life-immersing herself in a high-powered job-until the day the company downsizes her out of a job and the doctor tells her that she may have cancer. It's a double blow that sends Karen on a search for herself in the last place she ever thought to look: Grandma Rose's old farm.
As Karen's hectic schedule falls away, she opens up to the unexpected. In the quiet of the Missouri Ozarks, she hears the soft, secret
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