Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily...

A young child enjoys the sights, colors, tastes, and smells as fall comes to the family farm.

An Ode to a Vanished Way of Life on the Nebraska Plains. 'I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister: anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.' In Willa Cather's My Antonia, Jim Burden reflects on his childhood on the Nebraska prairie and the unforgettable girl...

Simple rhyming text describes a child's day spent riding on the tractor with Daddy at their small farm.

This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen's novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.

As the sun rises and sets, its rays highlight simple aspects and situations of farm life, including the shadow of a cloud, the sizzle of bacon, and the dancing of spoons.

A young girl describes how she cares for the mother horse and her colt living on her farm.

Fern is a young farm girl who rescues the runt, Wilbur. Wilbur the pig is saved from certain death and Fern visits him every day at her Uncle Homer's farm. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house." Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction.

All week long the pigs help out around the farm in unexpected ways.

Minnie and Moo dress up like two Cupids and deliver Valentine's Day poems to everyone on the farm.