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Strawberry Hill

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by Mary Ann Hoberman ; illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Little, Brown and Co, 2009
Description
When ten-year-old girl Allie learns that her family will be moving from their two-family home to their very own house in the country, she’s hesitant until she finds out they will be living on a street with the magical name of Strawberry Hill. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Moving, Household · Juvenile fiction · Country life · Best friends · Friendship · Depressions · 1929 · United States · Jews · Fiction · New Haven (Conn.) · Stamford (Conn.) · Hoberman, Mary Ann · Halperin, Wendy Anderson
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Creature Of The Night

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Kate Thompson
Publication Details
Book, First American ed, Roaring Brook Press, 2009
Description
Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Juvenile delinquents · Ireland · Dublin · Juvenile fiction · Country life · Murder · Fiction · Thompson, Kate, 1956-
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Squam Journal, 1978-1980

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by Michael Remillard
Publication Details
Book, 2nd ed, The author, 2008
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Motion picture locations · New Hampshire · Country life · Personal narratives · Squam Lakes (N.H.) · Remillard, Michael
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SPINELLI ROOM F42 .S68 R46 2008 ASK REF DESK
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The Wind In The Willows : An Annotated Edition

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Kenneth Grahame ; edited by Seth Lerer
Publication Details
Book, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
Description
Begun as a series of stories told by Kenneth Grahame to his six-year-old son, The Wind in the Willows has become one of the most beloved works of children?s literature ever written. In his running commentary on the novel, Lerer offers complete annotations to the language, contexts, allusions, and larger texture of Grahame?s prose. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Animals · Fiction · Friendship · Country life · River life · England · Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932 · Lerer, Seth, 1955-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR4726 .W515 2009b AVAILABLE

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Little Audrey

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Ruth White
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
Description
(automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Country life · Virginia · Juvenile fiction · Family life · Coal miners · Poor · Death · History · 20th century · White, Ruth, 1942-
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Spuds

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by Karen Hesse ; illustrated by Wendy Watson
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Scholastic Press, 2008
Description
Ma’s been working so hard, she doesn’t have much left over. But in a surprise twist, they learned they have helped the farmer (contd.) Ma’s been working so hard, she doesn’t have much left over. Awards and Honors for CATS IN KRASINSKI SQUARE by Karen Hess and Wendy Watson ALA Notable Children’s Book NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book Sydney Taylor Award - Honor Book IRA Notable Book for a Global Society CCBC Choices Koret Jewish Book Award Pare (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Potatoes · Juvenile fiction · Country life · Brothers and sisters · Fiction · Hesse, Karen · Watson, Wendy
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Lizard Love

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Wendy Townsend
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Front Street, 2008
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Reptiles · Fiction · Self-acceptance · Interpersonal relations · City and town life · New York (State) · New York · Country life · Middle West · New York (N.Y.) · Townsend, Wendy
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The Wisdom Of Donkeys : Finding Tranquility In A Chaotic World

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Andy Merrifield
Publication Details
Book, 1st U.S. ed, Walker & Company, 2008
Description
The purposeful pace of the journey and the understated nobility of Gribouille, his humble donkey companion, allowed him to confront himself as well as to consider the larger mysteries of life—insight he now shares in his enchanting book, The Wisdom of Donkeys. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Merrifield, Andy · Travel · France · Auvergne · Donkeys · Country life · Peace of mind · Auvergne (France) · Social life and customs · Description and travel · Merrifield, Andy
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(LOWER LEVEL) DC611.A942 M493 2008 AVAILABLE

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Deep Down Popular : A Novel

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by Phoebe Stone
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008
Description
6th-grader Jessie Lou is deeply, madly, passionately in love with Conrad Parker Smith. Jessie Lou and Conrad start spending a lot more time together, but she can’t help wonder — is she just a substitute friend? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Popularity · Juvenile fiction · Schools · Country life · Virginia · Coming of age · Fiction · Family life · Stone, Phoebe, 1947-
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See You In A Hundred Years : Four Seasons In Forgotten America

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Logan Ward
Publication Details
Book, BenBella Books, 2007
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- Publisher description
Description
To save their marriage and their sanity, the author (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Ward, Logan · Homes and haunts · Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) · Family · Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) · Country life · Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) · Farm life · Virginia · Charlottesville Region · Social life and customs · Biography · New York · Ward, Logan
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(LOWER LEVEL) F232.S5 W27 2007 AVAILABLE

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Wild Card Quilt : The Ecology Of Home

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Janisse Ray
Publication Details
Book, 1st pbk. ed, Milkweed Editions, 2003
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- Table of contents
Description
Seventeen years after she’d left home “for good,” Janisse Ray pointed her truck away from Montana and back to the small southern town where she was born. Ray works to save her local school, sets up a writing group at the local hardware store, and struggles with whether she can be an adult in a childhood place. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Ray, Janisse, · 1962- · Ray family · Country life · Georgia · Baxley · Women naturalists · Biography · Longleaf pine · Baxley Region · Forest conservation · Baxley (Ga.) · Social life and customs · Rural conditions · Ray, Janisse, 1962-
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Main Streets & Back Roads Of New England : The Best Of Chronicle’s Award-winning WCVB-TV Series

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written by Susan Sloan, Chris Stirling, and the Chronicle staff
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Globe Pequot Press, 2002
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- Table of contents only
Description
As with the award-winning TV show, this book combines fabulous footage with insightful commentary on 50 memorable journeys. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Interviews · New England · Country life · Description and travel · History, Local · Biography
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(LOWER LEVEL) F10 .M34 2001 AVAILABLE

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The Rising Star Of Rusty Nail

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Lesley M.M. Blume
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, A.A. Knopf, 2007
Description
Franny Hansen is a 10-year-old piano prodigy living in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. She’s long exhausted the talents of the town’s only piano teacher and seems destined to perform at church events and school assemblies, until a mysterious Russian woman arrives in Rusty Nail. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Piano · Juvenile fiction · Musicians · Russian Americans · Country life · Minnesota · Fiction · History · 20th century · Blume, Lesley M. M
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle : A Year Of Food Life

Attribution
Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver ; original drawings by Richard A. Houser
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, HarperCollins Publishers, 2007
Description
Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that’s better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kingsolver, Barbara · Hopp, Steven L., · 1954- · Farm life · Appalachian Region, Southern · Anecdotes · Country life · Agriculture · Food habits · Kingsolver, Barbara · Hopp, Steven L., 1954- · Kingsolver, Camille, 1987-
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(UPPER LEVEL) S521.5.A67 K56 2007 AVAILABLE

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The Road Washes Out In Spring : A Poet’s Memoir Of Living Off The Grid

Attribution
Baron Wormser
Publication Details
Book, University Press of New England, 2006
Description
His refusal to be satisfied with the obvious explanation, the single thread of motive, makes him a keen and sympathetic observer of his neighbors and community, a perceptive reader of poetry and literature, and an honest and unselfconscious analyst of his own responses to the natural world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Wormser, Baron · Poets laureate · Maine · Biography · Poets, American · 20th century · Country life · Wormser, Baron
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3573.O693 Z46 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3573.O693 Z46 2006	AVAILABLE

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