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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Following the turn of the seasons, eleven-year-old Eldon traces the daily routines of his life on a farm and his relationship with his older brother, Wayne. During the winter, with little work to be done on the farm, Eldon and Wayne spend the quiet hours with their family, listening to their uncle David's stories. But Eldon soon learns that, although he has lived on the same farm, in the same house with his uncle for eleven springs, summers, and...
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.
3) Hard ball
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.
5) Full service
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the summer of 1965, sixteen-year-old Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
Author
Pub. Date
1989, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.
Author
Series
The gentle hills volume 2
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Jerry Macmillan has returned on leave from the war, but doesn't know if he will receive the special discharge he requested. If he doesn't get it, his ailing father will lose the farm, and his wife and daughter will have no place to go.
9) Horse Camp
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.