When Grandpa and Uncle Charlie sign the farm over to Joshua, he is faced with the awesome responsiblity of making the farm enough of a success to be able to support the family.

An oblivious sheep wants to be the best sheep protector around, but unbeknownst to her, Sheep is being steadfastly guarded by a patient sheep dog.

Farmer Fred takes his work very seriously and so do his animals, until they decide they need to make the farm more fun and set out to find a way to make Farmer Fred laugh. Farmer Fred never smiled much. "Farmin" is serious business, " he"d say. "Nothin" funny about corn." And so life on his farm was pretty serious. None of the animals laughed or even smiled.But everyone has to laugh sometimes, including Farmer Fed. The animals try everything to get...

This Pulitzer Prize winning novel concerns sensitive and idealistic Claude Wheeler. Dissatisfied with his life as a Nebraskan farmer and with the ways of his family, he finds true meaning and beauty when he enters the army and goes to France in World War I.

"Florence Prescott and her family live in fear of her father's vicious outbursts. Lord Prescott rules his household with a cruel and violent hand, and when one of his drunken rages leads to the abuse of Florence's beloved younger brother, Florence boldly confronts her father--and pays the price for her insolence. Broken and hopeless, Florence feels like a prisoner in her own life. As a former stablehand for the Prescotts, Evan Avery is all too familiar...

A Cambodian farming family struggles against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and a cruel and dictatorial father, within a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. A mother must fight against memories of her father's death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, and her powerful desire for revenge. A daughter is married off at sixteen to a wandering husband and his domineering aunt; another daughter...

While visiting her grandparents' farm, Sylvie Ann finds a fine large pumpkin for Halloween but it leads her a merry chase as it rolls faster and faster down the hill and into the barnyard.

Growing up on a pineapple farm in Mexico, a young girl discovers the magic in everyday transformations that take place around her.