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Zelly Fried wants a dog more than anything, so at the urging of her grandfather, during the summer before sixth grade she takes care of a "practice dog" made out of an orange juice jug to show her parents that she is ready for the responsibility, even though she is sometimes not entirely sure about the idea.
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In Vermont, the trials of Rob Peck, a 13-year-old boy who takes over the family farm when his father dies. The cow goes dry, the ox dies, there follows the worst drought in memory--one disaster after another, but he takes them like a man. By the author of A Day No Pigs Would Die.
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English
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"Mackenzie Cooper took her eyes off the road just long enough to rob her of her beloved daughter and ultimately of her new marriage, family, friends, and privacy. Now she lives in Vermont under the name Maggie Reid. She's thankful for her new friends-- though she can't risk telling them too much-- and takes satisfaction in working as a makeup artist. Covering up scars is a skill she has mastered. Then a friend's teenage son is thrust into the...
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A boy sees a man commit a murder, then later that day the murderer calls on his mother with flowers. So begins the tense tale of a con man exploiting a love-starved woman, with an alcoholic husband and three children, and a boy who keeps a murder secret to avoid ruining his mother's happiness. The setting is a small town in Vermont, the time the 1960s.
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[2018]
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English
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August 2011. Tropical Storm Irene wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. New Orleans bartender Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Beginning her search in the hometown she left eight years earlier, Vale finds herself falling back into the lives of the family she thought she'd left behind-- and careening toward a family origin secret more stunning than she ever imagined.
10) Preacher's boy
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Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.
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Meade family stories volume 3
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
Description
In early twentieth-century Vermont, sixteen-year-old Emma confides in her diary both her hopes of becoming a farmer's wife one day and her frustrations with her parents' belief that she is too young to be courted by the handsome Cole Berry.
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Pub. Date
2012.
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200, 11 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Nine-and-a-half-year-old Maple and her older sister, Dawn, must work together to face treacherous terrain, wild animals, and poachers as they trek through Vermont's Green Mountains seeking a miracle for their prematurely-born sister.
13) The ghost clause
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another "provocative ... haunting"* novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost (*Janet Maslin, New York Times)"--
It's been several months since Simon Inescort had a heart attack and keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia-bound ferry. His widow, Lorca Pell, sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and...
14) Fixing Delilah
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Pub. Date
2011, 2010.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
When Delilah, her mother, and her aunt spend the summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past.
15) The memory trees
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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415 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Eight years after her sister Patience's tragic death on her family's remote apple orchard, Sorrow returns to the land, determined to find out what really happened the night Patience died and what other secrets may be waiting for her there.
The apple orchard in Vermont was Sorrow Lovegood's whole world-- until her sister Patience's tragic death. Sorrow was sent to Miami to live with her father, away from the only home she'd ever known. Now, eight...
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Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
60 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
Description
Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change her warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.
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