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Kirsten Saves the Day: A Summer Story

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The Thing About Luck

Cynthia Kadohata

Rural FarmImmigrant ProtagonistMiddle GradeCharming
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Esperanza Rising

Pam Munoz Ryan · 262 pages

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

Immigrant ProtagonistRural FarmMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 237 pages

The first in a series of truly charming tales of life on the early American frontier, Little House in the Big Woods introduces us to Laura Ingalls, her Ma and Pa, big sister Mary and Baby Carrie. She lives in an isolated cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and spends her days helping Ma with household chores, learning how to care for a house, farm and family. The descriptions of typical activities

Rural FarmCharmingHeartwarmingHistorical Fiction
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Bette Bao Lord · 169 pages

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

Immigrant ProtagonistCharmingMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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Strawberry Girl

Lois Lenski · 193 pages

Set in a little-known backwoods region of Florida, Strawberry Girl is the first of the Lenski regional books and the winner of the Newbery award.

Rural FarmMiddle GradeCharmingHeartwarming
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Heidi Grows Up

Charles Tritten · 192 pages

Rural FarmCharmingHeartwarmingMiddle Grade
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Sarah, Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlan · 64 pages

This Newbery Medal winning book and children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. The 30th Anniversary edition includes author Patricia MacLachlan s Newbery speech, discussion guide a

Rural FarmMiddle GradeHeartwarmingCharming
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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.

Rural FarmMiddle GradeCharmingHeartwarming
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The Secret School

Avi · 157 pages

More than anything, Ida Bidson wants to become a teacher. To do that, she needs to finish eighth grade so she can go on to high school. But when the one-room school in Ida’s remote Colorado town closes unexpectedly, that dream seems unattainable. Her only hope is to keep the school open without anyone finding out. Yet even a secret school needs a teacher. Ida can’t be it. . . . Or can she? In t

Rural FarmMiddle GradeCharmingHeartwarming
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A Handful of Stars

Cynthia Lord · 184 pages

Immigrant ProtagonistRural FarmMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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Miracles on Maple Hill

Virginia Sorensen · 194 pages

Rural FarmMiddle GradeHeartwarmingCharming
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Sixty Acres and a Bride

Regina Jennings

Immigrant ProtagonistRural FarmHeartwarmingHistorical Fiction
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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.

Rural FarmMiddle GradeCharmingHistorical Fiction
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The Trouble with May Amelia

Jennifer L. Holm

Rural FarmMiddle GradeCharmingHistorical Fiction
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Little House on Rocky Ridge

Roger Lea MacBride · 368 pages

Rural FarmMiddle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical Fiction
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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

Rural FarmCharmingMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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Little House in Brookfield

Maria D. Wilkes · 298 pages

Meet Caroline Quiner, the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls's mother. Little House in Brookfield is the first in an ongoing series about the adventures of another girl from America's favorite pioneer family. It's 1845 in the bustling frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. Five-year-old Caroline lives in a frame house at the edge of town with her mother, her grandmother, and her fi

Rural FarmMiddle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical Fiction
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Midsummer's Mayhem

Rajani LaRocca · 351 pages

Middle GradeCharmingHeartwarmingImmigrant Protagonist
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Little City by the Lake

Celia Wilkins · 309 pages

Fifteen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, moves to Milwaukee in 1855 to experience city life and attend school.

Middle GradeCharmingHeartwarmingHistorical Fiction
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A Long Way from Chicago

Richard Peck · 160 pages

What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy. August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of milk. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma

CharmingMiddle GradeRural FarmHeartwarming
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The Girl Who Could Fly

Victoria Forester · 336 pages

Rural FarmMiddle GradeHeartwarmingCharming
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Samantha Saves the Day: A Summer Story

Valerie Tripp, Luann Roberts · 65 pages

While spending the summer at Grandmary's home on Goose Lake, Samantha and the twins Agnes and Agatha decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.

Middle GradeCharmingHeartwarmingHistorical Fiction
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Moo

Sharon Creech · 288 pages

Zora was chasing us. Mooooooooo. Mooooooooo. When we reached the gate Luke scrambled up and over it instead of through it and I was trying to follow when Zora s ENORMOUS HEAD loomed up below me and bumped me into the air.

Rural FarmMiddle GradeHeartwarmingCharming
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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.

Rural FarmMiddle GradeCharmingHeartwarming
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