farm life

Farmer Tubbs' amazing pig, Ace of Clubs, eventually winds up on television for his cleverness.

The people, animals, and objects on the farm explain their relationship with the dirt, which is used and needed by all.

Everyone in the family is upset when the farm animals get into the crops, but Mother remains calm and knows just what to do.

Text, photographs, and illustrations identify and trace patterns of change and continuity in American farms during the past 150 years, covering such topics as types of farms, farm buildings, farm life, and the effects of weather on farming.

Laura helps out on the family farms in the Big Woods and on the prairie.

A young girl sells her pony and uses the money to buy back her father's tractor when the family's belongings are put up for auction.

Wezielee, the youngest child in a sharecropper's family, longs to go to school, but during harvest season Papa insists that she stay home and prepare the midday meal while he and the others work in the fields.

Kate, Ben, and Foster attempt to protect their neighbors' corn from the animals by setting up two scarecrows, whose changing clothes and positions provide them with distinct personalities while keeping pests away.

After her grandfather dies, Sarah's parents are in danger of losing the family farm, until Sarah remembers the story he had told her about coins buried under the old barn.

A farmer sneezes a fly off his nose and causes havoc in the barnyard.