After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.

In Jim Burden's accounting of his life with, and without, Antonia Shimerda, listeners are transported to the hardscrabble Nebraska prairie and the rural immigrant experience. When Jim first sees the Shimerda family, immigrants from Bohemia, disembarking from the same train that is taking him West to live with his grandparents, he has no idea the impact they will have on his life. Nostalgically, he remembers the good and bad times they had on their...

Little Duck can't wait to celebrate Valentine's Day, but when she invites a little fox to the dance, the newcomer might ruin the party, or perhaps, she's just what the party needs. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.

In Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening...

A new, adorable duckling's play-with-me "peeps" are keeping the whole barnyard awake with her, and it is up to Duck to help the little one fall asleep. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.

Set in a little-known backwoods region of Florida, Strawberry Girl is the first of the Lenski regional books. The story of Birdie Boyer and how she battled nature, animals, and feuding neighbors to become the best "strawberry girl" the backwoods ever knew.

It is December, and there are many things for the family to do around the farm to get it ready for winter.

Henry and his dog Mudge tangle with a grumpy goose when they visit a farm.

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.

Otis the tractor has a busy day working and playing on the farm. Includes a brief preface with activities for emergent readers.