farm life

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farm life

Spike, the black wolf

1994
Recounts how a farm family's pet wolf became a local hero.

Carlos and the skunk

1997
When Carlos tries to show off for his friend Gloria by catching a skunk, he gets more than he bargained for.

Carlos and the cornfield

1998
A young boy learns the consequences of not following his father's directions for the proper way of planting corn.

I am a farmer

1978
Farmer Sue describes some of the chores, animals, and helpers on her farm.

The Blithedale romance

an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
1978

Full service

2008
In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.

My Antonia

2003
A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl named Antonia.

The Canada geese quilt

1999
Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.

If wishes were horses

2002
During the summer of 1932 when Lily is twelve years old, she is granted her two greatest wishes, to be far from the sister who torments her and to have a horse of her own, but she does not expect either the tragic events that bring this about or their consequences.

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