Children's Nonfiction Colonial & Revolutionary Periods
Early Farm Life
- Publisher
- Crabtree Publishing Company
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1992
- Category
- Colonial & Revolutionary Periods, Customs, Traditions, Anthropology, Farm & Ranch Life
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780865050266
- Publish Date
- Mar 1992
- List Price
- $10.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780865050273
- Publish Date
- Mar 1992
- List Price
- $24.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 8 to 9
- Grade: 3 to 4
Description
Topics covered; Arrival in the forest, starting from scratch, building a home The prairie settler’s special problems Clearing the land, building fences A settler girl’s letter about her new life The first planting and harvest Building the barn, the animals’ home Winter work: frozen up and snowed in Maple syrup; the sap flows in the early spring The beautiful orchard, the apiary Henrietta tours the barnyard The geese guard the yard Horsepower; the giants of the farm Disappointments in farm life Grain from the field to flour to bread A boy’s threshing day diary The prairie; wheat fields and ranching The country fair A city girl learns about farm life Changes on the farm