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Sent with their invalid mother to the rugged mountains of 1940 southwestern Virginia, Lou and her young brother Oz follow a relentless but critical legal battle while encountering prejudice, innocence, greed, and faith in their new home.

After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

A young woman living on a remote Missouri farm and struggling to care for her husband, baby, and ailing grandmother, Katie Benson seeks inspiration in dealing with the vicissitudes of life in the pages of her grandmother's journal.

A German family in the Iowa plains tries to fight the rising tide of anti-German sentiment in the years following World War I while searching for their two youngest daughters who vanished suddenly in the middle of the night.

Cousin Edward visits Aunt Judy and Uncle Earl on their farm and tries to help with all of the chores.

In a hilarious, honest and heartbreaking memoir, the author, after experiencing an economic crisis of epic proportions, chronicles her unexpected journey from country chic to a 100-year-old, mice-infested, snake-ridden cabin in a North Carolina holler where she discovered the true meaning of home.

Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.

All week long the pigs help out around the farm in unexpected ways.

When Pig plops into his sty at bedtime, he finds Cow sleeping there and must send her off to her stall, setting off a chain reaction of animals being awakened to move to their own beds.

Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.