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Author
Series
Sneaky pony ; 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon learning that an older woman has moved into run-down, creepy Crabapple Farm, nine-year-old Keeker rides over on her pony, Plum, to find out whether the woman is a witch.
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.
6) Nora's ark
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Presents a descriptive list of all the things required to have a Christmas like the author's grandmother had, including farm animals, stories of Scotland, ice skating in the moonlight, and joining friends, family, and neighbors at church on Christmas Eve.
10) Faraway summer
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1910, Dossi, a poor Russian immigrant from the tenements of New York, spends two weeks with the Meade family on their Vermont farm, and all their lives are enriched by the experience.
11) The two brothers
Author
Series
Publisher
Vermont Folklife Center
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Heinrich and Friedrich, two brothers in Prussia in the 1880s, travel separately to America and end up working on adjacent farms in Vermont.
12) Taking wing
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
With his father in the Army Air Corps and his mother diagnosed with tuberculosis, thirteen-year-old Gus sets out to incubate a nest of orphaned duck eggs on his grandparents' farm in Vermont.
13) True colors
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century Vermont, sixteen-year-old Emma confides in her diary both her hopes of becoming a farmer's wife one day and her frustrations with her parents' belief that she is too young to be courted by the handsome Cole Berry.
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
"After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders."--
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