Author: Gary Paulsen
Narrator: Luke Daniels
Unabridged: 1 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 02/20/2013
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Lifestyles - Farm & Ranch Life
The wonderful grandmother whom listeners saw through the eyes of a young boy in The Cookcamp reaches out to him when he is fourteen, offering him a haven from his harsh and painful family life. She arranges a summer job for him on the farm where she is a cook for bachelor brothers Gunnar and Olaf. Farm life offers the camaraderie and the routine of hard work, as well as good food, peaceful evenings spent making music together, and even dancing lessons. Life with Alida gives the boy strength and faith in himself, drawing him away from the edge and into the center of life.
Fawn Braun wants out of her small town. She dreams of moving to the big city and decides to live as though she were already there. To keep his friend near home, Larry Flatland develops a plan to make Pfeffernut County as fun as the city.
Ezra and Irene live in the city, but their yard looks like a farm! They grow tomatoes on the roof, corn in the front yard, flowers in the window, and lemons for lemonade. Everyone helps with the garden—even their friends.
"Pia just found out the terrible news that pigs can't look straight up, which means her best friend and right-hand pig Patches has never seen the sky. If you ask her, that is absolutely cuckoo bananas. Now Pia is on a mission to share the beauty of ...
Can thirteen-year-old Kate drive a tractor-load of hay by herself?
Fourteen-year-old John Barron is asked, like his father and grandfather before him, to spend the summer taking care of their sheep in the haymeadow. Six thousand sheep. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all those sheep.John d...
Veggies are sprouting down on the farm! See how our food goes from f ield to truck to town to table.
A girl's quick thinking saves the wranglers.
Award-winning author Janice N. Harrington presents a book about a spunky girl with a bad habit. Meet the Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County. Almost the first thing she thinks about every morning is chasing the farm's chickens. She sneaks up on th...
When Brother's dad is shipped off to Iraq, along with the rest of his reserve unit, Brother must help his grandparents keep the ranch going. He’s determined to maintain it just as his father left it, in the hope that doing so will ensure his f...