farm life

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A visit to a farm

Photographs and simple text introduce early readers to the animals, machines and buildings found on a farm. Includes a list of words to know.

Ethan Frome

Contains the story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer who is married to a hypochondriac, but in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.

The revolt of Mother

After living for forty years in a cramped farmhouse in 1890's New England, a woman reacts to the new barn her husband has built by moving the household into it while he is gone on a trip.

Bo hatches a plan

As spring arrives on the Davis family farm, Bo is entrusted with guarding the chicken eggs, but his playtime with his friend Scrapper turns things eggs-tra challenging.

Fireworks night

After learning about fireworks from Nanny Sheep, farm pup Bo reassures his best canine friend Scrapper that fireworks are not evil monsters.

Around the farm

Answers questions children ask about farms, explaining what they are and why they are important, describing a day in the life of a farmer, and showing how farms have changed over time; and visits a dairy, an orchard, a vineyard, and vegetable, nut, poultry, and fish farms.

TURKEY TROUBLE

As Thanksgiving Day approaches, Turkey nervously makes a series of costumes, disguising himself as other farm animals in hopes that he can avoid being served as Thanksgiving dinner.

I live on a farm

A seven-year-old boy who lives on a farm in upstate New York describes life in that rural community including the various kinds of work to be done during each season.

Easter on the farm

2024
A young girl visits her aunt and uncle's farm and helps prepare for her family's annual Easter celebration.
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Buried child

a play
2006
Presents the script of Sam Shepard's Pultizer Prize-winning drama in which the arrival of Vince and his girlfriend at the squalid midwestern farmhouse of his grandparents prompts the revelation of a long-buried secret that is destroying Vince's family.
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