iowa

When sent to live on a farm in Iowa as an alternative to juvenile detention, seventeen-year-old Cosmos falls in love with a religious girl and reconsiders his values and beliefs.

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naivet?, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, to find out how the modest corn kernel conquered America. With the help of real farmers, powerful fertilizer, government aid, and genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hidden truths about America's modern food system.

The story of a world-class photographer and an Iowa farm wife as they are joined in a passionate, romantic experience that will forever haunt them.

At seventeen, Jasmine is a widow in a small village in India where she was born. Just a few years later, she is Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.

Relates how the author chose and trained her beloved Paso Fino horse, discovering that pleasure riding is more enjoyable for her than formal showing and competing with other horses.

Twelve-year-old Marie, living with her widowed mother, brothers, and younger sister on an Iowa farm during the Depression, tries to cope with the difficulties of growing up.

Excerpts from the diary of Sarah Gillispie, a pioneer in Iowa in the nineteenth century. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to the era.