Pears, Tim

Summary: "Somerset, 1911. The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and the land, remains untouched. Leo, a talented rider and son of the underkeeper to the head groundskeeper, grows up alongside the master's spirited daughter Charlotte"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEA

Long, Loren.

Summary: When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD LON

Rosoff, Meg.

Summary: To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROS

Jones, Sadie

Summary: A captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside. Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JON

Lean, Sarah

Summary: Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION LEA

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LEA

Rinker, Sherri Duskey

Summary: Told in rhyming text, six farm vehicles work through all the seasons, from spring planting to building a barn to protect the animals in winter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RIN

Jago, Lucy

Summary: ""A bravura historical debut . . . a gloriously immersive escape." -Guardian Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court. With Frankie, I could have the life I had always wanted . . . and with me she could forge something more satisfying from her own ....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAG

Harris, Patricia

Summary: In this imaginative narrative, which is based on the HABA game Eeny, Meeny, Moo, readers are invited along on a class trip to a farm. A group of students explores the farmyard with their teacher and learn about the animals that live there. But what happens when the students don't do as they're told? This fun story is a great introduction to farm animals but also teaches important lessons about...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Powerkids Press 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAR

Summary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLI

Dale, Penny

Summary: They've built, they've zoomed, they've rescued, they've flown into space and they've even fought off baddy pirates, but now our dynamic team of dinosaurs have moved to pastures new - literally-- working hard on the Dinosaur Farm! Join them as they plough the stony soil, feed the sheep, cut the corn in a combine harvester and much more! But what are they preparing all their animals and crops...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAL

Brisson, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2018

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRI

Hardy, Thomas

Summary: Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Finch, Charles (Charles B.)

Summary: Visiting his uncle's estate in Somerset for what he hopes will be a quiet working vacation, politician and new father Charles Lenox investigates a series of seemingly small acts of vandalism only to uncover a sinister plot by an adversary who may be targeting someone Lenox loves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIN

Churchman, John

Summary: Poppy the alpaca explores Moonrise Farm with her animal friends, finding and trying new foods throughout the spring, summer, fall, and winter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHU

Fisher, Suzanne Woods

Summary: Back and broke in Stoney Ridge, Jimmy Fisher has coasted through life on good looks and charm, but his smile has no effect on Sylvie Schrock King of Rising Star Farm. She's offered him a job because she's desperate for help on the farm, and because Jimmy understands horses like no one else. Jimmy is the son of Sylvie's neighbor Edith, who holds a serious grudge against Sylvie. While Jimmy's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIS

Henson, Heather.

Summary: Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEN

Willis, Jeanne

Summary: Old MacDonald loves his phone, he thinks it works a charm, Now all the animals have phones too, how will he run his farm? Sing along as Old MacDonald's farm falls into chaos! How will the animals learn to balance their screen time?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press USA 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIL

Churchman, John

Summary: "When baby sheepdog Maisie moves to a new farm, she learns about each animal's special job and soon learns what her job will be"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHU

Wharton, Edith

Summary: One of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-town tale of epic proportions in this masterful novella. Physically disfigured and trapped in a loveless marriage to a sickly older woman, Ethan Frome is a broken man. He lives a desolate, impoverished life in the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, bound by an unassailable sense of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wharton 2015

Smiley, Jane.

Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMI

Long, Loren.

Summary: When Otis the tractor becomes trapped in a burning barn, after rescuing kittens, his animal friends and local firefighters come to his aid.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE OTI

Held, Barbara.

Summary: After a fight with her mom, eleven-year-old Jennifer is sent back in time fiftry years. A city girl, she discovers she is now on a farm in Wisconsin. Petrified and confused, she tells her "new" parents she is not their daughter, Julie, but they do not believe her. Diagnosed with amnesia, Jennifer plays along, rather than be called crazy. After meeting Julie's best friend, Grace, the two try to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barbara Held 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEL