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2) Meteor!
Author
Pub. Date
1996, c1978
Language
English
Description
A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.
4) Prairie days
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes summer days growing up on the prairie.
7) Anne arrives
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The charming first book in a new early-reader series, starring the spirited and outspoken Anne Shirley as she first arrives at Green Gables. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert need help on their farm, so they've adopted what they hope will be a sturdy, helpful boy. Instead, Matthew finds Anne awaiting him at the train station imaginative, brash, redheaded Anne-with-an-e. With her place at the Cuthberts at risk--particularly if nosy neighbor Mrs. Lynde has...
10) All pets allowed
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Becket and her twin brother, Nicholas, adopt new pets from the local shelter, Becket's dream dog turns out to be a super-shy scaredy-pooch, and Nicholas's cat is more outgoing and attention-seeking than he was expecting"--
11) Fall friends
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Elliot the little elephant and his best friend, Mouse, play hide-and-seek during an autumn vacation in the countryside.
13) Ruby Holler
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
15) The Gray
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been a tough year for Sasha--he's been bullied at his middle school and his anxiety, which he calls the Gray, is growing. Sasha's dad tells him to "toughen up"--and he does, but with unfortunate, hurtful results. His parents and therapist agree that a summer in the country with his aunt might be the best medicine, but it's the last place he wants to be. He'll be away from his best friend, video games, and stuck in the house that reminds him...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Four-year-old Mei, adjusting to life in a new home and learning to get along without her mother, who has been hospitalized, follows a funny-looking creature to the trunk of an ancient camphor tree one afternoon while her sister is at school, and enters the whimsical world of Totoro
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Mei and Satsuki continue to adjust to their new country home. They've made friends with the neighbor boy Kanta and have Granny to look after them. And, Totoro, who watches over them too, shows them a strange Cat Bus, helps them with their new garden, and takes them on a forest adventure
18) Come a tide
Author
Pub. Date
©1990
Language
English
Description
A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.
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