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Farming, as we understand it, is obsolete. And though Willa knows it, she holds onto her farm refusing to give into the political pressures and tricks to capture her land and stop her. But everything around her is falling apart. And something is making it more difficult to even operate the farm – or for her to live the only way she knows.
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Farm Life, City Life is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.
RI.2.9 and Literacy.
L.2.1f. Full-page color photographs and narrative nonfiction text teaches the difference between farm and city environments. This book includes a graphic organizer. This book should be paired with "Rural Life, Urban Life" (9781477723463) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative...
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Though there are more automobiles than harvesters on the roads these days, folks in Wythe County, Virginia, keep their memories and traditions preserved in these conversations with the local twentieth-century farmers who spent their entire lives working this land. Visit with James Kegley, a fourth-generation farmer discussing his family's cattle and poultry drives to the train in Wytheville, and Agnes Eades as she shares stories about the night before...
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10 audio discs (approximately 11 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Drinkwater details the struggles she and her husband Michel confront when the honey bee colony on their farm is decimated by insecticides. As Carol and Michel face the difficulties of organic farming, their problems emerge as stark examples of the issues facing our planet and the life it supports.
5) Farming
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An introduction, in simple text and illustrations, to farming and the work done on a farm throughout the seasons.
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Farm animals are friendly animals. They help mommy and daddy around the farm, and they make excellent friends too. Your child will learn to appreciate farm animals after reading this book from page to page. There are pictures, too, to make identification easier. This is a great book to keep around the house when you have toddlers and early learners. You know you need to have a copy ASAP!
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Describes how an urban bookworm and children's book author, along with her partner, set out to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning a working farm in Minnesota, offering a heartwarming, frequently humorous take on their crash course in living off and living with the land.
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South of the Big Four is a gracefully told, arresting look at an America in which the center no longer holds, where a new kind of forgiveness and understanding must be found. In the tradition of A Thousand Acres and A Map of the World, the novel's sudden truths and lasting images transcend the daily lives of its Midwestern characters to create a penetrating, resonant story, made all the more remarkable because it is the author's debut.
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In a radical departure from her urban life, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in deep forest. She's trying to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston; more, she desperately wants to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division.As she writes in her journal, "There's got to be a more honest, less divided way to live."She soon learns she was mistaken...
12) One Monday
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Over the course of a week, the wind plays havoc all around Annabelle's farm.
13) Thunder-Boomer!
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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A farm family scurries for shelter from a violent thunderstorm that brings welcome relief from the heat and also an unexpected surprise.
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advise of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives, where she finds ample material for the novel she wishes to write.
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Over many years Suzanne journaled notes of her memories. A few years ago, she found three different journals with similar stories. Last year Suzanne was encouraged by Karen Harper to write a book. While writing about her life on the farm, she recalled many other family stories, told to her by her dad and other family members. Suzanne's goal was to write down family information and pass it on to her immediate family; second cousins and nieces and nephews....
16) Farm-fresh cats
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1 volume : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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A farmer is surprised to discover that he has grown a crop of very unusual cats instead of cabbages.
17) The promise
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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While helping her neighbor assist one of his cows in giving birth, Ramie hears a story of another birth helped by a young person interested in cows.
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