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Author
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl...
Author
Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
4) Winter wood
Author
Series
Touchstone trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Somerset, England, on her family's farm, Midge must find a lost artifact that will help the warring tribes of the Various--little people that only Midge can see-- return to their homeland, but in order to accomplish this, she must first find her great-great-aunt Celandine, who also spent time with the Various as a child.
Author
Series
Threshold series volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Prissie Pomeroy has adjusted to the knowledge that many of the "people" she knows in her town are actually angels, but one of them, Adin, is not what he claims to be--and a new boy named Ransom is not making her life any easier.
Author
Series
Threshold series volume 1
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Prissie Pomeroy's faith is tested when she learns that some of her friends, old and new, are angels, that they are engaged in battle with demons, and that God has some special purpose for her.
Author
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ricki Jo, a Kentucky farm girl, learns that popularity is not all she hoped it would be when the huge changes she makes in her personality and style seem to do more to drive away old friends than to win new ones.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
10) The countryside
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes daily life in the countryside of England during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), from the poor, to the middle classes, to the upper classes"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Melita, the sophisticated daughter of a New York actress, comes to visit Phoebe, who has been raised by her father on a farm in Maine, Phoebe discovers she has confusing feelings about their developing friendship.
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