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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
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.
3) Taking wing
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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.
Author
Series
Meade family stories volume 1
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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.
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill/Dutton
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1932 when Lily is twelve years old, she is granted her two greatest wishes, to be far from the sister who torments her and to have a horse of her own, but she does not expect either the tragic events that bring this about or their consequences.