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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
LITTLE HOUSE. BIG ADVENTURE: A fresh, photographic repackage of the original Little House books just in time for the series' 75th anniversary.
... 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
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A thick blanket of snow covers Jack and Tom's farm - trapping the sheep on the hill.
NOVEL OF A NEW TEACHER'S EXPERIENCES IN 1922 IN RURAL IOWA.
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
Follows a year in the life of seven-year-old Betsy and her large family on their Wisconsin farm.
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.
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.
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.