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42) Reaching Dustin
Author
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Carly's assignment to interview a reclusive, brooding classmate leads her to discover some of the events that have caused his antisocial and abusive family's negative impact on their Missouri farming community, and Carly's family in particular.
43) Katerina's wish
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
45) Early warning
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1953, the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post-World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the...
46) Queen of hearts
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December, 1941, Marie Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm.
47) Mountain born
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Donald thinks nothing could be worse than missing a pop fly in a baseball game that most of his Montana town was watching, but through the end of 1947 and beginning of 1948, he suffers one humiliation after another.
49) Pixie pushes on
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Caring for a runt lamb helps Pixie gain empathy when, in the 1940s, her family moves to her grandparents' farm and her sister Charlotte contracts polio and is sent away.
53) Hope in the land
Author
Series
Amish turns of time volume 4
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Henry Edison turns up in Lancaster County to survey farm women about their domestic contributions during the Great Depression, the last thing Amish housewife Gloria Grabill has time for is the government agent's questions. Gloria's hands are already full trying to balance farm life, with a husband, children, an extended family, in addition to an English neighbor, Minera Swain. While the Great Depression shadows the country in gloom, can Amish...
Author
Series
Confessions of April Grace volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.
55) Fig
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1994, Fig looks back on her life and relates her experiences, from age six to nineteen, as she desperately tries to save her mother from schizophrenia while her own mental health and relationships deteriorate.
56) Dancy's woman
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lauren Vandis was sent to the boondocks of Mississippi to persuade Coyle Dancy not to sue her family over a busted oil pipeline that had left his leg in a cast and turned his catfish farm into oily acres of Mississippi mud. Face-to-face with a gorgeous, furious, southern man, Lauren didn't have the nerve to tell Coyle the truth. Instead she pretended to be the nurse sent to help him.
Author
Language
English
Description
Few things are as lasting as the bond between sisters. In her poignant debut, Elizabeth Bass explores the lengths one cobbled-together family will go to for each other, and the power of a connection that never fades. . .Sassy Spinster Farm is a place to find solace. At least, that's what it's become since Rue Anderson and her sister Laura transformed their childhood Texas homestead into a successful tourist destination. It's where guests flock to...
58) Love begins
Language
English
Description
"After their father's passing, Ellen Barlow and her sister Cassie struggle to maintain the family farm in Anderson's Corner. When Clark Davis finds trouble in town on his way to California, Ellen agrees to hire him at the farm to work off his debts. Before long, Clark and Ellen unexpectedly develop feelings for each other. Ultimately, a turn of events inspires the pair to begin a legacy of love and faith together."
Author
Series
Publisher
Good Books, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., a Delaware corporation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow feisty and independent Hannah as she grows from a fifteen-year-old girl in a covered wagon headed west with her family, all the way through marriage, tragedy, and her ongoing pursuit of home and belonging. In this unique and gripping trilogy, Hannah's struggles to reconcile her Amish faith with her fiery and rebellious spirit parallel the relentless hardships of life as a homesteader in North Dakota, including famine, blizzards, fires, and...