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 boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock.

Minnie and Moo want to give special presents to the Farmer for his birthday, but something goes awry when Moo knits him a sweater.

When Otis the tractor becomes trapped in a burning barn, after rescuing kittens, his animal friends and local firefighters come to his aid.

"A farmhouse where twelve children grow up holds evidence of their stories long after they are gone"--