Books of Farm life
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Home to the Prairie
By Thomas L. TedrowWhile life goes on in Mansfield, Missouri, Laura agrees to help her elderly father fulfill his dream of returning to their former home on the Kansas prairie.
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Farmer Grover
By Norman StilesGrover visits a farm, meets familiar farm animals and imitates their activities.
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A Small Farm in Maine
By Terry SilberSoon they were selling their produce at the farmer's market. One Monday, they didn't go back, and Hedgehog Hill farm was born. Here is how they were transformed from office dwellers to country folk living off the land.
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Well, I Never!
By Susan PearsonA topsy-turvy day on the farm results in misplaced breakfast food, flying pigs, and farm buildings in the clouds.
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Woolly Jumpers
By Nette HiltonMike and Jake's dad has always wanted to live in the country.
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Walt Disney's Farmer Mickey
By Walt Disney, Walt Disney CompanyWalt Disney's Farmer Mickey
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Seasons of My Life
By Hannah HauxwellThe classic and much-loved memoir by Hannah Hauxwell about life in remote Yorkshire in the 1970s.
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Caught
By Robbie MichaelsAdam's father sends him to a farm to work with Ben, but a confrontation at Adam's new school might end their summer romance.
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Memory's Keep
By James E. KiblerThe novel exceeds Trig's individual life, taking us back over a century and a half ago to a time when daily life was more tangibly tied to the land.
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Down to Earth
By Faith AddisDown to Earth
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The Farm Book
By Boyd E. Smith'The Farm Book' is a unique pictorial record of the work and pleasure shared by a farming family at the turn of the century.
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The Little Colonel
By Annie Fellows JohnstonOne of the most beloved heroines of American children's literature, the Little Colonel, a delightful young Kentucky girl, is the central figure in this nostalgic tale of growing up in a leisurely age.
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Hobby Farm: How to Create and Maintain Your Hobby Farm Or Great Estate
By Kristen Hampshire"Provides information and instructions for those who own, or dream of owning, a hobby farm or a large estate of 2 to 40 acres"--
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Lucy's Summer
By Donald HallFor Lucy Wells, who lives on a farm in New Hampshire, the summer of 1910 is filled with helping her mother can fruits and vegetables, enjoying the Fourth of July celebration, and other activities.
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Mockingbird Sings in the Thicket
By Stephen Lars KalmonA youth (Stephen Lars Kalmon) raised in a Midwest rural setting, remembers the vast changes after World War II. He tells the story of buying a new Hudson, a long tricky process in which a man is upstaged in the deal.
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The Five-Year Guide to Self-Sufficiency: Simple Living Made Simpler
By Amelia Barrows"The Five-Year Guide to Self-Sufficiency" follows a logical progression to move your homestead forward every year in an organized and affordable manner.
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One Horse Farm
By Dahlov IpcarBig Betty is the one horse on the farm, and she works hard all year long at the different jobs which need doing on a farm, until the day a tractor takes over.
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My Family Secrets: Shhhh-- Shhhh-- Shhhh--
By Robert RosdhalMy Family Secrets: Shhhh-- Shhhh-- Shhhh--
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So Many Mornings: Remembrances from the Life of Letha Alice Grossnickel Wiles, Including True Civil War Stories and Life in...
By Yvonne Fay Wiles GeorgSo Many Mornings: Remembrances from the Life of Letha Alice Grossnickel Wiles, Including True Civil War Stories and Life in...
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The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food
By John Lewis-StempelThe Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges, and brooks of his forty-acre farm.