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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time"--
3) Moo
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
130 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures, restoring their spirits and their bond with each other.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Don Schmidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana, and goes from outcast to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he discovers some shocking family secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead,they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anneturns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear.Manga Classics® is proud to be the only authorized manga adaption of Anne of Green Gables by the Heirs of L.M. Montgomery. This trade paperback volume presents a...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 1970s, twelve-year-old Chili Sue Mahoney longs to escape her tiny Kentucky home town and see the world, but she also learns to recognize beauty in the people and places around her.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures, restoring their spirits and their bond with each other.
11) Ruby Holler
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books/Harper Collins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
190 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
13) As brave as you
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
33 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A punk rock mouse and country Western mouse covet each other's lives, but when they magically switch places they learn things may seem more appealing than they actually are. Includes a classic retelling of the fable, visual questions, and a glossary.
15) Stepping stones
Author
Series
Publisher
RH Graphic
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jen moves out to the country and has to put up with her mom and her mom's new boyfriend, as well as his kids. Suddenly part of a larger family in a new place, Jen isn't sure there is a place for her in this different world."--
