Books of Farm life

  • Eighty Acres: Elegy for a Family Farm
    By Ronald Jager

    In this richly detailed memoir, Ronald Jager evokes rural America of 50 years ago and a boy's life on a small family farm in Michigan.

  • Fine Feathers Don't Make a Peacock
    By Jill L. Jackson, Emily Garthright

    Fine Feathers Don't Make a Peacock

  • Shorty Finds a Job
    By Katherine Snow Segars

    A Shetland pony on a farm begins to wonder what his purpose in life is when he realizes that the two other horses on the farm have work they do, but he doesn't.

  • Willow Whip
    By Irene Bennett Brown

    In 1918 in Kansas a young girl is determined to make it possible for her constantly moving, tenant farmer family to buy the farm that she has come to love and wants to live on permanently.

  • Dakota Sky
    By Ray Aman

    When Joe Schultz raised the shotgun and took a bead on the forehead of his horse Sam, something inside Joe snapped and changed him forever.

  • Wild Apples
    By Lucinda Franks

    Wild Apples

  • The Lord of the Harvest
    By M. Betham-Edwards

    Elisha Sage is chosen each year to be Lord of the Harvest, reigning with absolute authority for the duration of the reaping, until the last waggon has been stacked. But he is about to suffer a dramatic fall from grace.

  • Family Farm
    By Thomas Locker

    A farm family nearly lose their home until they hit on the idea of raising and selling pumpkins and flowers to supplement their corn and milk sales.

  • Farmer Boy
    By Laura Ingalls Wilder, Houghton Mifflin Company

    LITTLE HOUSE. BIG ADVENTURE: A fresh, photographic repackage of the original Little House books just in time for the series' 75th anniversary.

  • As I Remember It
    By Doris Johnson, Ray Imhof

    ... I remember it well. We were lined up and took our turns. Mine came. The candle was lit and Miss Miller pointed me in the right ...

  • Hill Farmer: A Working Year on the Fells
    By Neville Turner

    Hill Farmer: A Working Year on the Fells

  • One of Ours: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
    By Willa Cather

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  • On the Farm: Snow Rescue
    By Jamie Lamb, Lee Lamb

    A thick blanket of snow covers Jack and Tom's farm - trapping the sheep on the hill.

  • Still Water Runs Deep
    By Marianne Gutteridge

    NOVEL OF A NEW TEACHER'S EXPERIENCES IN 1922 IN RURAL IOWA.

  • A Garden for a Groundhog
    By Lorna Balian

    Every year Groundhog gets to eat most of the O'Leary's garden. They decide to plant a garden just for him in the hope that he will be satisfied. But Groundhog has other ideas!

  • A Haven in His Arms
    By Phyllis Halldorson

    A Haven in His Arms

  • Willow Wind Farm: Betsy's Story
    By Anne Pellowski

    Follows a year in the life of seven-year-old Betsy and her large family on their Wisconsin farm.

  • Breaking Free
    By Louann Gaeddert

    In 1800, shortly before his twelfth birthday, Richard is sent to live with his uncle on a farm in upper New York State, where he teaches a young slave to read and encourages her to dream of freedom.

  • Farmer Boy
    By L. Wilder

    Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.

  • A Man's Heart
    By Lori Copeland

    In this relationally rich novel of faith and hope, a young woman struggles to salvage the farm, honor her promise to a dead friend, and win back the man whose heart she broke.