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Thomas Hardy's first literary masterpiece, Far From the Madding Crowd is the story of free-spirited Bathsheba Everdene, whose bold independence attracts the attention of three suitors: the frugal shepherd Gabriel Oak, the lonely farmer William Boldwood, and the dashing young soldier Sergeant Francis Troy. Each man unsettles Bathsheba's life in some way, complicating her ideas of courtship and passion, and threatening to upset her quiet community....
2) Funny farm
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009
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Cousin Edward visits Aunt Judy and Uncle Earl on their farm and tries to help with all of the chores.
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Goosebumps volume 20
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Jodie is staying with her grandparents on their farm and sees the scarecrows "come alive!"
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Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
2012
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A posthumous double volume of the influential author's first and last written works, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of his birth, includes the bitter satire "Basic training" and the unfinished final novel "If God were alive today".
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In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized...
15) Chicken soup
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
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When they hear that Mrs. Farmer is making soup, all the frightenened chickens run for their lives, but Mr. Farmer finds Little Chickie, who has a bad cold, and he takes her to the kitchen for some nice hot vegetable soup.
16) Wake up, Rupert!
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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"Rupert the rooster is tired from rising early to wake everyone on the farm up. Will his friend Sherman the sheep be able to do the job?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Under northern skies volume 1
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"In 1910, Signe, her husband, and their boys emigrate from Norway to Minnesota, dreaming of one day owning a farm of their own. But the relatives they've come to stay with are harsh and demanding. As Signe's family is worked to the bone to repay the cost of their voyage, can she learn to trust God through this trial and hold on to hope for a better future?"-- Provided by publisher.
18) El chupacabras
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Farmer Hector and his daughter Carla seek help from the monstrous chupacabra when their goats become giants and threaten the town.
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