country life

Eben McAllister searches his small town to see if he can find anything comparable to the real Seven Wonders of the World.

In 1853, in letters to his older brother, eleven-year-old Levi describes his adventures in the Pennsylvania countryside with his African-American friend Jupiter and his experiences with the Underground Railroad.

In this collection of poems, the author relates his experiences growing up in the Australian countryside.

Clifford runs off during Emily Elizabeth's dad's party to see his own dad, who teaches him about dog things such as fetching and digging and gets some help from Clifford when he needs it.

Simple text and color photos show what it is like to live out in the country, covering the plants, animals, and other parts of nature one sees every day.

Tells the story of the Meadows family and the life they lead in the quiet country town of Blue Hill, Virginia.

In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies.".

Describes the behavior of a wild bull moose who moved onto a farm in Vermont and developed an attachment for one of the cows there.

Traces a year in the Lincolnshire village of Gerneham, from ploughing through sowing, harvesting, and threshing, with illustrations of village life inspired by the fourteenth-century Luttrell Psalter.

Relates the life experiences, from birth to his start in boarding school, of a Muslim boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.