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"During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country and examine the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. Her personal history...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
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234, 16 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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A graduate working on a program to study the effects of technology on society describes his residence in a Mennonite-type community and recounts how his wife and he experienced health benefits and overall life satisfaction during their stay.
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Kitty's magic volume 5
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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100 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Kitty is determined to help two stray kittens to find their owner but, with a hungry fox in the neighborhood and snow on the way, she will have to move fast.
64) Strawberry girl
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In 1945, in Florida, ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family struggle to make their new farm prosper despite heat, droughts, cold snaps, and rowdy neighbors.
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A young girl is skeptical when her parents declare they will have a simple Christmas focused on giving rather than getting, but soon their old barn is filled with food, fun, friends, and homemade gifts. Includes directions for making star ornaments, Christmas card coasters, and melted crayon rocks.
67) El Chupacabras
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
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Farmer Hector and his daughter Carla seek help from the monstrous chupacabra when their goats become giants and threaten the town.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 1
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A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
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Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Turkey loves nothing better than a good trick...except maybe a good disguise. So for Valentine's Day, he decides to secretly deliver a card to each of his friends. But when he dresses up as a cat to deliver the purr-fect valentine, he's quickly found out. It turns out that outsmarting his pals is harder than he thought. Luckily, Turkey has more silly surprises in store.
71) Parker's place
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 24 x 29 cm
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"A friendly T. rex tries to fit in on a farm where no jobs seem suitable for a dinosaur"--
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Pig (Emer Stamp) volume 1
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When his life of yummy slops, a back-scratching farmer, and a duck best friend is threatened by an Evil Chicken plot involving a tractor-rocket, Pig becomes further upset when Duck shows his porcine friend the shed where pigs are prepared for dinner.
73) A hundred horses
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Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
74) Farmer boy
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At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
75) Some luck
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Last hundred years trilogy volume 1
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"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
77) Ethan Frome
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On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondrialcal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists.
78) Heaven adjacent
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Roseanna Chaldecott spent her life as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan. But when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, something snaps. Unsure of her future, Roseanna heads upstate on one tank of gas and with no plans to return. In the foothills of the Adirondacks, Roseanna discovers the perfect hideout in a ramshackle farm. Its seventy-six acres are rich with possibilities and full of surprises, including a mother and daughter squatting...
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