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Boxcar children volume Prequel
Language
English
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Description
In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.
Author
Series
Chester Cricket volume 2
Publisher
Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012, c1969
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a city bred cat and mouse when they go to the country in Connecticut to visit their friend, Chester Cricket.
3) Pony crazy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Meg loves horses and has the good luck to move to the country where they live. Her and her new friend Jill feed, groom, and play with the horses and make a plan so it doesn't end.
Author
Series
Little Elliot volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elliot the little elephant and his best friend, Mouse, play hide-and-seek during an autumn vacation in the countryside.
5) Meteor!
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.
Author
Series
Disney chills volume 6
Language
English
Description
Dawn misses the big city. Torn away from her favorite place in the world and shipped off to live with her two cooky aunts in the countryside, Dawn is miserable in her new life. While her parents see this as a chance for her to be away from the bad influences that kept getting her into trouble, Dawn sees her new dumpy town of Castletown as a sticky and smelly prison with way too many bugs. But no one seems to care what Dawn wants, so she's stuck helping...
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Language
English
Description
This classic—adapted for radio, television, stage, and screen—“has a special and enduring place in British children’s literature” (The Guardian).
Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis used to live in London. But their father, who worked at the Foreign Office, was accused of spying—and now he’s in prison. So they’ve moved with their mother to the Yorkshire countryside, to...
Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis used to live in London. But their father, who worked at the Foreign Office, was accused of spying—and now he’s in prison. So they’ve moved with their mother to the Yorkshire countryside, to...
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English
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Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
11) Marja's skis
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Marja finally gets to go to school on skis like her older sister, but she struggles when her father is killed in a logging accident.
12) Spuds
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Maybelle, Jack, and Eddie want to help Ma by putting something extra on the table, so they set out in the dark to take potatoes from a nearby field, but when they arrive home and empty their potato sacks, they are surprised by what they see.
13) Come a tide
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.
Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's summertime and a boy and his dog are leaving behind their apartment in the busy city. His grandparents' home in the countryside feels like a different world. From the window, the curious boy sees a path leading enticingly into the forest. He can't wait to explore. At each bend in the trail the boy discovers more wonders of the surrounding natural world, from towering trees to a still, silent lake. He can't resist diving down, down into the cool...
18) Signal
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl who may be a space alien.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
James invites Marvin and his cousin Elaine on a trip to the country, and it proves to be a very exciting adventure for the forever friends.
20) Strawberry Hill
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.
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