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Author
Series
Tending roses volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother's Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that the lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. The family has given Kate the job of convincing Grandma Rose, who's become increasingly stubborn and forgetful, to move off her beloved land and into a nursing home. But Kate knows such a change would break her grandmother's heart. Just when Kate despairs of finding answers,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
4) Sweetland
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the village, is the only one to refuse. As he watches his neighbors abandon the island, he recalls the town's rugged history...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Juliet, Saskatchewan is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of town--the welcome sign promises a population of one thousand and eleven--so it's easy to believe that nothing of consequence takes place there. But the heart of Juliet beats with rich stories of its inhabitants. They all bring the prairie desert and the town of Juliet to vivid life in this funny, tragic and touching novel"--
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Deep in the Alaskan wilderness is a family who, for the last thirty years, has lived in the wild. For the Browns, residing in a one-room cabin and sharing their front yard with some of the world's most dangerous animals is just part of life. Includes all fourteen episodes from one of Discovery's highest-rated shows.
Author
Series
Lake Wobegon volume 11
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider...
13) Winter's bone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daniel Woodrell's modern classic is an unforgettable tale of desperation and courage that inspired the award-winning film starring Jennifer Lawrence.
Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive....
Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive....
14) Some luck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s.
16) Golden age
Author
Series
Last hundred years a family saga volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The third book of a trilogy about a farm family from Iowa, which takes them from the late 1980s through the present and into the future. --Provided by publisher.
17) Patterns of love
Author
Series
Coming to America volume 2
Publisher
ZondervanPublishingHouse
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
Description
"In rural Iowa, life is both the planter and uprooter of dreams. As love, long delayed, springs to life in the heart of a young Swedish immigrant, one man struggles with his withered ambitions--and new blessings that could take their place if he would but allow them room."--Page 4 of cover.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them.
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