farm life

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My ?ntonia

A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl.
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Good morning, Farmer Carmen!

Katie stays and works with her friend Pedro's aunt on her farm. She learns all about getting up early, working in the dirt, eating tomatoes, and selling produce at the farmers market.
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Sweet potato pie

During a drought in the early 1900s, a large loving African American family finds a delicious way to earn the money they need to save their family farm.
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Sylvia & Aki

When Aki's family is sent to a Japanese internment camp at the beginning of World War II, Sylvia's family leases their farm. But Sylvia also faces discrimination, as a Mexican American. Includes black-and-white photographs of the real Sylvia and Aki.
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The year at Maple Hill Farm

Describes the seasonal changes on a farm and surrounding countryside throughout the year.
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Kindred souls

Ten year-old Jake shares a special bond with his grandfather, Billy, but when Billy asks Jake to build him a sod house, Jake is not sure he wants to do it.
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Charlotte's web

Wilbur the pig is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
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Alida's song

A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers.
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Punk Farm

At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments to perform in a big concert as a rock band called Punk Farm.
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Prodigal summer

a novel
Three lives intersect in the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia where they learn lessons of love and nature.
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