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1) Alida's song
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
153 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ellie's grandmother doesn't want her around the farm, but times are tough, and her salesman father can't take her on the road. Ellie's challenge is to break through her grandmother's isolation and find kinship among strangers.
4) Big red barn
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Beaver's Pond Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Opa and Opa, grandparents who have shared a long life together on their farm. Once they nurtured seven children, a variety of farm animals, and rolling fields with their love and hard work. Now they teach their grandchildren about the wonderful ways you can grow, not only on the farm, but anywhere you live. After fifty years on the same farm, in the same home, Opa and Oma are still growing in life ... together.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fall is here, with all its wonderful visual delights--not just colors, but shapes! This clever concept book follows a family on a trip to a pumpkin patch and invites children to pick out shapes from the seasonal scenery--apple bushel circles, square hay bales, diamond kites in the autumn sky! Felicia Sanzari Chernesky's sweet verses are perfectly complemented by Susan Swan's gorgeous collage-inspired art."--Publisher description.
7) Otis
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Horace and Bunwinkle volume 1
Publisher
BALZER + BRAY, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Horace Homer Higgins III despises dirt. And the outdoors. And ducks. But when his person, Eleanor, moves to a farm called the Homestead, the anxious Boston Terrier is forced to adapt. As if that isn't enough to strain his nerves, Ellie adopts a perpetually cheerful potbellied pig named Bunwinkle to be his baby sister. Bunwinkle is delighted to be on the farm despite the stuffy demeanor of her new canine brother. She's sure she'll crack his shell eventually--no...
10) Hobart
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
57 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four budding artists, a tap dancer, a poet, a singer, and an acrobat, who just happen to be pigs, live out their dreams and avoid becoming bacon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012, c1997
Physical Desc
115 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For years Joey was a war horse, pulling ambulance carts and artillery through the battlefields of World War I. Finally he returned to Albert and the farm. Now, decades later, Albert's son loves to tell his own grandson stories about the remarkable horse, including its feats in the war and of the time the family risked everything betting that Joey could win a daring race.
13) Grandma's farm
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In this charming and nostalgia-filled companion to the best-selling picture book Grandpa's Tractor, a grandmother shares her fond memories of farm life. Grandma Ginny and Timmy take a trip to visit the site of the family farm, where the old house and some rickety buildings still stand. Timmy had visited with Grandpa before and learned all about his tractor, but Grandma has her own stories to tell of planting the fields, harvesting the crops, and feeding...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
27 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poppy is in charge of the goat races at the farm's annual Pumpkin Festival, but Vincent Van Goat is not interested in racing--so Poppy needs to find something Vincent is willing to do.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Burdock, a young barn cat, sneaks into the house to get warm, he hears that the farmer, Dewey Baxter, has terrible plans that'll endanger all the animals, and he leads them in an attempt to escape before it's too late.
17) Farmer duck
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Farmer duck does all the work on the farm, because of the lazy farmer. When he collapses from exhaustion, the farmyard animals come up with a plan.
18) Thunder-Boomer!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A farm family scurries for shelter from a violent thunderstorm that brings welcome relief from the heat and also an unexpected surprise.
19) Charlotte's web
Author
Language
English
Description
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a tractor as it plows, sows, and harvests the fields throughout the course of a year, with a little help from some other farm machinery.