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Author
Series
World made by hand volume 2
Language
English
Description
In a post-oil America with no electricity, no Internet, dwindling resources, and little civic order, the residents of the small town of Union Grove, New York, must deal with roving bandits and a sinister cult that threatens to shatter the hamlet's stability.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Maria Luz and her family have a small farm in Honduras, but may not have enough food to sustain them for the year, so Maria's father must leave home to find work, leaving her in charge of the garden.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1950s, a crop duster, disappointed in career and marriage, narrowly avoids a crash and tries to understand what caused it. Meanwhile, an old friend of his wife reappears with promises of a better life for their Kansas town.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
All you need for an anywhere farm is: soil, sunshine, water, and a seed. Colorful illustrations accompany rhyming text that describes a variety of locations, plants, farmers, and farm visitors.
Author
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Beginning with Norman Borlaug and going back to those who influenced him directly or indirectly, shows how one ordinary boy came to develop "super plants" that helped save billions of people from starvation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndiek Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
c2023.
Language
English
Description
"Even the best-laid plants can go awry... After solving a murder and getting her organic farm ready to overwinter, Shiloh Bellamy still expects the next few months to be busy with repairs, spring planning, and networking with local businesses. She might even be able to broker a new partnership with Fields Brewery and its organic brewer's association. Well, she could if the owner wasn't found murdered at the county Ice Fishing Derby. Once again, Shiloh...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An audacious novel of feminine rage about one of the most prolific female serial killers in American history-and the men who drove her to it. They whisper about her in Chicago. Men come to her with their hopes, their dreams-their fortunes. But no one sees them leave. No one sees them at all after they come to call on the Widow of La Porte. The good people of Indiana may have their suspicions, but if those fools knew what she'd given up, what was...
10) Music for Alice
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Japanese American farmer recounts her agricultural successes and setbacks and her enduring love of dance. Based on the true life story of Alice Sumida, who with her husband Mark, established the largest gladiola bulb farm in the country during the last half of the twentieth century.
11) Bravo Tavo!
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tavo dreams of nothing but being a famous basketball star--and getting new shoes so that he can practice better--but his village in Mexico faces a serious drought and Tavo and his father must work to convince the other people that the old way of irrigation will save their crops.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A mother-daughter story of reinvention-about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season but...
13) The Toy farmer
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A toy farmer on a tractor that Jed finds in the attic transforms his bedroom into a real farm, where a vine grows and produces one enormous pumpkin. In the attic, Jed finds an old toy tractor with a miniature farmer in the driver's seat. It seems just like any other toy - but then amazing things happen. First, Jed's bedroom carpet begins to sprout tiny green shoots. Then a pumpkin appears on a vine. It grows and grows, until it is big enough to win...