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On the Banks of Plum Creek

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 338 pages

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

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Thimble Summer

Elizabeth Enright · 130 pages

Children's novel set in 1930s rural Wisconsin. First published in 1938. A story about the various things that happen during the summer when Garnet Linden is nine.

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Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

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Understood Betsy

Dorothy Canfield Fisher · 211 pages

Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.

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Miracles on Maple Hill

Virginia Sorensen · 194 pages

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Kate Douglas Wiggin · 337 pages

Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.

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Lad: A Dog

Albert Payson Terhune · 70 pages

Whisked away from his country estate to compete in a dog show in New York City, Lad is confused and unhappy and wishes only to go home.

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All Things Bright and Beautiful

James Herriot · 384 pages

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Charlotte's Web

E.B. White · 184 pages

Charlotte's Web is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. The novel tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur (such a

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Rabbit Hill

Robert Lawson · 127 pages

New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers

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Emily's Runaway Imagination

Beverly Cleary · 221 pages

Emily decides that what the town of Pitchfork needs is a library, and comes up with a plan to make it happen.

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The Children of Willow Farm

Enid Blyton · 184 pages

Willow Farm is an amazing place - as four city children find out! Sheila looks after the fat brown hens, and helps in the dairy. Penny has her mischievous lamb - which even follows her to school! Rory and Benjy learn how to make haystacks, milk the cows, look after the pigs and horses - and even to shear the sheep! Farming may be hard work, but it's always exciting. And the best times of all ar

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Happy Times in Noisy Village

Astrid Lindgren · 128 pages

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Heidi

Johanna Spyri · 292 pages

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Magical Melons: More Stories About Caddie Woodlawn

Carol Ryrie Brink · 193 pages

Fourteen tales relating the further adventures of ten-year-old Caddie and her six siblings living on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum · 226 pages

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz remains one of the world's most beloved and widely read books. Throughout a century of remarkable change, the popularity of L. Frank Baum's classic tale has endured and grown, embraced by generation after generation of children and the young at heart. To honour the centennial of its publication in 1900, the University Press of Kansas is presenting this special anniversar

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Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson · 144 pages

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

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Heidi Grows Up

Charles Tritten · 192 pages

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Roller Skates

Ruth Sawyer · 186 pages

Liberated for a year from her parents' restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.

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Owls in the Family

Farley Mowat · 103 pages

Describes the many adventures of a family that adopts two owls.

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Babe: The Gallant Pig

Dick King-Smith · 118 pages

A piglet comes to Farmer Hogget's farm, where he is adopted by an old sheepdog and accomplishes amazing things.

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Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill

Maud Hart Lovelace · 171 pages

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Roald Dahl · 96 pages

The main character of Fantastic Mr. Fox is an extremely clever anthropomorphized fox named Mr. Fox. He lives with his wife and four little foxes. In order to feed his family, he steals food from the cruel, brutish farmers named Boggis, Bunce, and Bean every night. Finally tired of being constantly outwitted by Mr. Fox, the farmers attempt to capture and kill him. The foxes escape in time by bur

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A Hat Full of Sky

Terry Pratchett · 352 pages

Something is coming after Tiffany ...Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this!What Tiffany doesn't know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six

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