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English
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A posthumous double volume of the influential author's first and last written works, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of his birth, includes the bitter satire "Basic training" and the unfinished final novel "If God were alive today." In the foreword, Nannette Vonnegut, shares her reminiscences about her father and the autobiographical events in his life related to these two works.
2) Farmers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This photo-illustrated book for early readers explains what farmers do how they work to raise crops and animals"--
3) Farming
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Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An introduction, in simple text and illustrations, to farming and the work done on a farm throughout the seasons.
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English
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"Tracy Campbell never wanted to leave Hope Harbor, Oregon, or the idyllic three-generation cranberry farm where she grew up. But life--and love--altered her plans. When tragedy strikes and changes her plans yet again, she finds herself back in her hometown with a floundering farm to run and a heartbreaking secret. Romance is not on her agenda. Nor is it on Michael Hunter's. The visitor from Chicago has daunting secrets of his own. But when Tracy recruits...
5) Buried child
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English
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Contains the script for the 1977 play "Buried Child" in which a family is haunted by the knowledge that their grandfather killed and buried his wife's illegitimate child years earlier.
"The setting is a squalid farm home occupied by a family filled with suppressed violence and an unease born of deep-seated unhappiness. The characters are a ranting alcoholic grandfather; a sanctimonious grandmother who goes on drinking bouts with the local minister;...
6) Farm animals
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English
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"Learn about farm animals and learn to read along with a grown-up."--
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English
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In 1948, a boy is sent by his widowed father to live on his grandparents' farm in Vermont. He records his memories, describing the rural lifestyle of a bygone era. Lots of pastoral images, rugged individualism and unforgettable characters. By the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom.
8) Alida's song
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
9) Fearless
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English
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Trouble and temptation clash in a Texas town, as two people learning just what it means to trust must face the truth about each other, and decide if there's a chance for the future they both secretly desire.
10) Otis
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Series
Otis the tractor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
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Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Jodie is staying with her grandparents on their farm and sees the scarecrows "come alive!"
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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. --
13) A dirty death
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English
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When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard, at first it seems like an accident. But when two more deaths occur foul play seems certain
14) Tending roses
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Series
Tending roses volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Kate and her husband and baby son move to her grandmother's Missouri farm in an effort to influence the grandmother to move to a nursing home, Kate is helped by the discovery of her grandmother's journal.
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Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
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English
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"Her husband's suicide left Nora MacKenzie alone, and his shady Wall Street dealings left the Manhattan socialite penniless. By a miracle she's held on to their mountainside farm--and she'll keep holding on, no matter what. The property is Nora's one chance to wring some dignity out of the sham she's been living. The Vermont locals think she's a city girl on a nature kick, but she's not afraid to get her hands dirty. Nora's serious about learning...
19) The edge of town
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Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Julie Jones lives with her widowed father and her family on their Missouri farm, waiting for someone to come courting.
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English
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Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises on it with her husband, Frank. But for the deeply religious Mary, farming is an awkward living and at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations. Still, Mary creates a clean and orderly...
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