Books like The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Edgar Sawtelle, born unable to speak, grows up on a farm in northern Wisconsin where his family breeds and trains a line of uncommonly gifted dogs, until his father's brother, Claude, comes home.
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The Yearling
Jody Baxter, a boy living with his parents on a hardscrabble farm in the Florida scrub in the 1870s, adopts an orphaned fawn and calls it Flag.
A Thousand Acres
A modern retelling of King Lear set on an Iowa farm, where a father's decision to divide his land among three daughters unleashes buried secrets and destruction.
We Were the Mulvaneys
Judd, the youngest of the Mulvaneys, tells the story of his charmed family on High Point Farm in upstate New York, and of what became of them after a Valentine's Day dance in 1976.
A Dog's Purpose
A dog born to a feral mother lives several lives in a row, each time as a different dog with a different family, and while he is Bailey, a golden retriever who belongs to a boy named Ethan, he begins to wonder what all these lives are for.
Where the Red Fern Grows
A Depression-era Ozarks boy saves two years to buy a pair of coonhound pups and trains them into the best hunting team in the hills, in a children's book that ends the way American dog books do.
Drowning Ruth
In 1919 Amanda Starkey leaves her nursing job in Milwaukee for the family farm on a Wisconsin lake, and after her sister drowns there one winter night, she raises her niece, Ruth, under a cloud of secrets.
The Round House
A thirteen-year-old boy on an Ojibwe reservation seeks justice after his mother is brutally attacked, navigating a legal system designed to fail Native people.
Salvage the Bones
A pregnant fifteen-year-old in rural Mississippi weathers Hurricane Katrina with her brothers, her fighting dogs, and a ferocity that refuses to break.
The Red Pony
Jody Tiflin, a ten-year-old on his family's ranch in the Salinas Valley, is given a red pony colt to raise, the first of the lessons his childhood will teach him.
Etna
Etna, a shepherd dog who served at the front of an unnamed present-day war, leaves the soldiers he has outlived and heads for the coastal farm where he grew up, crossing a ruined country full of animals and people starting over.
The Fishermen
Four brothers in 1990s Akure, Nigeria, skip school to fish in a forbidden river, and a madman's prophecy that the eldest will be killed by a fisherman sets the family on a course towards tragedy.
One of Ours
Claude Wheeler, a restless Nebraska farm boy who feels he was meant for something larger, finds it when America enters the First World War.