Gianferrari, Maria
Summary: Bread, milk, wool, fruits, and vegetables: things that fill our day to day lives. But where, and who, do they come from? Across wheat fields and city rooftop gardens, mushroom beds and maple forests, Thank a Farmer traces the food and clothing that a family uses back to the people who harvested and created them. With Maria Gianferrari's informed and poetic text and monumental artwork from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GIAOzeki, Ruth L.
Summary: Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZEPelletier, Andrew Thomas.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PelleYoung, Erin
Summary: "It starts with a body--a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield--on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agricultur e. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal as she discovers the victim was a childhood friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC YOUHouellebecq, Michel
Summary: "'Mes croyances sont limitées, mais elles sont violentes. Je crois à la possibilité du royaume restreint. Je crois à l'amour' écrivait récemment Michel Houellebecq. Le narrateur de Sérotonine approuverait sans réserve. Son récit traverse une France qui piétine ses traditions, banalise ses villes, détruit ses campagnes au bord de la révolte. Il raconte sa vie d'ingénieur agronome, son amitié...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 FIC HOUDerting, Kimberly
Summary: The country fair is only a month away when Vincent Van Goat eats all of Poppy's potentially prize winning cucumbers, and because there is not enough time to grow more, Poppy has to come up with a vegetable that will grow quickly (and can be protected from a greedy goat). Includes discussion questions, and tips for growing vegetables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DERCherkas, Michael
Summary: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin waged a brutal war against the Soviet peasantry leading to the Holodomor, the terror-famine that killed at least 4 million Ukrainians during the fall and winter of 1932-33. Red Harvest is based on the tragic events that took place in Soviet Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1933. Stalin and the ruling Communist Party began their program of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels, Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine 2023
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Summary: A cumulative, rhyming tale of an ordinary pig who leaps out of his boy's arms at a state fair and wallows in color after color, turning himself into a work of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC NORSilvey, Craig
Summary: Eleven-year-old Annie trains her dog Runt to participate in an Agility Course Grand Championship in an effort to save her family farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SILBruce, Camilla
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRURobinshaw, Sue.
Summary: Practical guide to homesteading, rural living and backwoods survival as told through a fictional couple's experiences in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Features solar heating and food preparation, building earth sheltered housing, and organic gardening and food preparation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ManyTracks 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.1 ROBBrouwer, Sigmund
Summary: "In this partially-illustrated early chapter book, 11-year-old Charlie tries his hardest to keep his life quiet and organized amid the chaos of life on the farm with his veterinarian mother."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BROSummary: An expatriate French couple operates an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of 'hill people' families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEAKarr, Kathleen
Summary: In 1860, a somewhat simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes of selling them at a profit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KARBrisson, Pat
Summary: As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRIKunstler, James Howard.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNHarrison, Jim
Summary: A middle-aged man who has taught for twenty-three years, more from habit than total commitment to his profession, is forced to come to terms with his identity, farm life, thirty-year marriage, and affair with an eighteen-year-old student in a Michigan community of the 1950's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell, c1976. 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Harrison 1976Scarry, Richard
Summary: Little farmers will love putting on their overalls and heading to work alongside rumbling tractors, giant plows, speedy cornhuskers, and more! Full of colorful vehicles and friendly faces from Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, What Do People Do All Day?, and Busiest People Ever!, farm life has never been so much fun!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Books 2019
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE SCAYoung, Erin
Summary: "A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut-crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body-a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YOUSalazar, Aida
Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALCronin, Doreen.
Summary: While Farmer Brown sleeps, his animals prepare for a talent show at the county fair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lectorum 2007
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH CROSchrempp, Skyler
Summary: "Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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Summary: On a rainy day, everyone on the farm stays inside except the cows, who enjoy the rain, mud, and wind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE CROWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Aldens are excited to learn about beekeeping, but when equipment goes missing, they have more than honey to harvest--they have a mystery to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023