Books of Farm life

  • Beauty
    Beauty
    By Bill Wallace

    Unhappy about his parents splitting up and moving with his mother to Grandpa's farm, eleven-year-old Luke finds comfort in riding and caring for a horse named Beauty.

  • Treehouse Tales
    Treehouse Tales
    By Anne Isaacs

    Three chapters relate the experiences and adventures of three 1880s Pennsylvania farm children in their family tree house, which serves as a refuge, a source of adventure, a lookout post, and a frightening dragon's lair.

  • A Patchwork Quilt: Life on a Virginia Farm, 1910-1920
    By Louise E. Gray

    A Patchwork Quilt: Life on a Virginia Farm, 1910-1920

  • The Prayer Chest: A Novel about Receiving All of Life's Riches
    The Prayer Chest: A Novel about Receiving All of Life's Riches
    By Joel Fotinos, August Gold

    This box, the Prayer Chest, contains the Three Secrets of Prayer that will change his life and the lives of everyone around him.

  • Death Beyond the Willows: How a Wedding Day Turned Tragic in America's Heartland
    Death Beyond the Willows: How a Wedding Day Turned Tragic in America's Heartland
    By Greg Peck

    Death Beyond the Willows: How a Wedding Day Turned Tragic in America's Heartland

  • A Day No Pigs Would Die
    By Robert Newton Peck, Faith Jaques

    Share in a boyhood of the rarest magic an unforgettable story filled with light and a deep sense of place and family.

  • A Thanksgiving Turkey
    A Thanksgiving Turkey
    By Julian Scheer

    A thirteen-year-old boy and his mother move to a farm in rural Virginia, where he and his grandfather try to hunt a wild turkey.

  • Field Days
    Field Days
    By Lyn McConchie

    Field Days

  • The Fat of the Land
    The Fat of the Land
    By John Seymour

    A seminal book, reissued after almost 50 years, offering a personal vision of a less-mechanized and less polluting world.

  • Ox Cart Man
    By Donald Hall

    The story continues through the winter and spring as the family makes and grows the same items that they will again sell to buy things that they need. Winner of The Caldecott Medal.

  • The Hungry Rabbit (Small/Paperback)
    The Hungry Rabbit (Small/Paperback)
    By Kate Cumming

    The Hungry Rabbit (Small/Paperback)

  • The Mailbox Surprise: A Cursive Handwriting Book for Students, Teachers, and Parents
    The Mailbox Surprise: A Cursive Handwriting Book for Students, Teachers, and Parents
    By Mary Gail Cowan Leming

    Come along with Mrs. McElroy as she teaches Sally and Johnny the joys of cursive writing. The Mailbox Surprise makes learning handwriting fun and engaging.

  • Memory's Keep
    Memory's Keep
    By Kibler, James Everett

    ... How Celtic Culture Inventing Southern Literature "James Kibler makes no bones about it. Memory's Keep is an all-out, full-hearted, sentimental paean to the golden days that were, or might have been, or surely should have been. Anyone ...

  • Reflections of a Farm Boy
    Reflections of a Farm Boy
    By Marion H. Cook

    This book is a collection of childhood experiences on a 360 acre irrigated farm in Southeastern Idaho.

  • Memories of a Farm Boy
    By Roy Auernheimer

    Memories of a Farm Boy

  • Becka's Dilemma
    Becka's Dilemma
    By Marjory Schmidt

    ... Becka really wanted to talk about it but Amy seemed sure it would never happen . Becka did not say anymore . " Let's go get a drink . ” Amy had finished eating . Becka had lost her appetite . They closed their dinner pails and started ...

  • A Friend in Paradise
    A Friend in Paradise
    By Des Hunt

    Set near Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty NZ. A boy grieving after the death of his father discovers a living giant gecko Hoplodactylus delcourti thought to be extinct for more than 100 years.