Jones, Kelly (Kelly Anne)

Summary: Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

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LaCour, Nina

Summary: A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020

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Steinbeck, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2000

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Jones, Kelly (Kelly Anne)

Summary: Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown is finally settling into her new home and her new role as keeper of some highly unusual chickens--chickens with secret superpowers! But the arrival of two new magical chickens for her flock and some unusual eggs to be incubated and hatched (what will their superpowers be?), plus an impending inspection from the Unusual Poultry Committee (who even knew this existed?)...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018

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Finney, Ernest J.

Summary: A novel on immigrant farm workers in 1930s California. The protagonists are three families--Italian, Japanese and Portuguese--and the novel follows their fortunes during the Depression and in World War II. By the author of Flights in the Heavenlies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nevada Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIN