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Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her ten-year-old daughter in tow, she's not sure if she'll be welcomed or turned away. But as Hope works the orchard alongside her aunt, daughter, and a kind man she finds increasingly difficult to ignore, a new life begins to blossom.
4) Harvest time
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Series
Language
English
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Little Critter and his younger sister help their grandparents pick pumpkins and apples, take down the scarecrow, and do other chores at harvest time.
5) Watercress
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the whippoorwill's call on the first day of spring through the first snowfall, Edna and members of her family gather fruits, berries, and vegetables from the fields, garden, and orchard on their Virginia farm and turn them into wonderful meals. Includes facts about the life of Edna Lewis, a descendant of slaves who grew up to be a famous chef, and five recipes.
8) Hurry!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl helps her grandparents get the hay in before a rainstorm ruins the crop.
10) Ant-tuition
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap/Callaway
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The Sunny Patch kids want to go to Ned and Ted's Summer's Never Ending Party instead of storing food for winter. Will Sunny Patch be prepared when the cold weather comes?
12) Green tractor
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Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Helping the farmer get everything ready for Harvest Day, Green Tractor can't wait for the children to arrive so he can pull the wagon for the hayride!
14) Big wheat
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide. Big Wheat is king as people gleefully embrace the gospels of progress and greed. But with Big Wheat comes a serial killer who calls himself the Windmill Man. He believes he has a holy calling to water the newly...
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English
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"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock...
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Archway Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Torgy, an adventurous tractor, experiences life through the eyes of a tractor on a farm in Montana. In this book, Torgy's Grandpa comes to visit and teaches Torgy life can still be exciting away from the video game screen ."--Back Cover.