Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In a small, Virginia town, sixth-grader Jessie Lou Ferguson has a crush on the hugely popular Conrad Parker Smith, and when he suddenly develops a medical problem and the teacher asks Jessie Lou to help him, they become friends, to her surprise.
6) Moo
Author
Formats
Description
Follows the efforts of twelve-year-old Reena, who has recently moved to rural Maine, to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Description
[Disc 1]. Season 1 : episodes 1-6. Newly widowed Audrey is forced to auction Grantleigh when she finds out that her husband was bankrupt. She is mortified when the buyer is "a Czech grocer" intent on running his Empire from the Manor. [Disc 2]. Season 2 : episodes 7-13. Hilarity abounds as Richard imposes new efficiency standards upon farm management and stirs Audrey's protest with his moderninzing methods. [Disc 3]. Season 3 : episodes 14-20 in...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Adult and child readers will learn all about urban and rural areas together in this new Co-reader from National Geographic Kids! Readers will take a tour through cities and rural areas around the world to learn what life is like downtown, in a farm community, in the mountains, and all around."--
9) Barn dance!
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Unable to sleep on the night of a full moon, a young boy follows the sound of music across the fields and finds an unusual barn dance in progress.
Author
Formats
Description
"In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being...
12) State fair
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A small-town family travels to the State Fair. The father is looking for a blue ribbon for his prize hog, Blue Boy, mom is looking for glory in her cooking, and the kids are looking for love.
13) The summer house
Author
Formats
Description
Matt comes across photos of him as a child yet they seem unfamiliar; is it really him? He can't remember the clothes or the toys, and his sister Imogen is nowhere in the pictures. Since her childhood Imogen has loved the Summer House, a charming folly in the grounds of an ancient house on Exmoor and now she and her veterinary husband have the chance of buying. But her marriage is threatened when her husband refuses to live so far from his practice....
Author
Formats
Description
Dear Libby, It occurs to me that you and your two children have been living with your mother for-Dear Lord!-two whole years, and I'm writing to see if you'd like to be rescued. The letter comes out of the blue, and just in time for Libby Moran, who-after the sudden death of her husband, Danny-went to stay with her hypercritical mother. Now her crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country....
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Formats
Description
This tale follows the adventures of Anne, a young, red-haired orphan who has spent her entire childhood being passed around from one foster home to the next. Until one day, she is sent to Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert by mistake. While trying to adopt a boy to help work on their farm, the Cuthbert's ended up with Anne, who they could not send away after learning that an evil woman in town was attempting to adopt her. Anne gains many friendships in...
19) My car trip
Author
Series
Publisher
Treasure Bay
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A boy enjoys his car trip to the country to visit his grandparents.
20) Miss Hickory
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1977
Description
Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request