Open Court

Grade 3

Country Life

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Peterson, Cris. Century farm : one hundred years on a family

farm. 1st ed. Honesdale, Pa. : Caroline House/Boyds Mills

Press, 1999. The story of a 100-year old family farm in

Wisconsin is told in photographs and in anecdotes about the

three generations of Petersons who have owned and farmed the

land.

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Rylant, Cynthia. Night in the country. New York : Bradbury

Press, c1986. Text and illustrations describe the sights

and sounds of nighttime in the country.

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Rylant, Cynthia. When I was young in the mountains. New York :

Dutton Children's Books, c1982. Reminiscences of the

pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.

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Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. Little house on the prairie.

1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1971. A

family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home

on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring

Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.

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Polacco, Patricia. Just plain fancy. New York : Bantam

Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, c1990. Naomi, an

Amish girl whose elders have impressed upon her the

importance of adhering to the simple ways of her people, is

horrified when one of her hen eggs hatches into an extremely

fancy bird.

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MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, plain and tall. New York :

Charlotte Zolotow Book, c1985. When their father invites a

mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie

home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and

hope that she will stay.

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Sarah, plain and tall.

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When I was young in the mountains.