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Northern Borders is Mosher’s nostalgic novel of life in northern Vermont’s Kingdom County, as told by a man remembering his boyhood. In 1948 six-year-old Austen Kittredge III leaves his widowed father to live with his paternal grandparents on their farm in the township of Lost Nation. Escapades at the county fair, doings at the annual family reunion and Shakespeare performance, and conflicts at the one-room schoolhouse are all recounted lovingly...
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If You Liked The Most Costly Journey
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If You Liked The Most Costly Journey
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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
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In a radical departure from her urban life, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in deep forest. She's trying to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston; more, she desperately wants to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division.As she writes in her journal, "There's got to be a more honest, less divided way to live." She soon learns she was mistaken...
5) Taking wing
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Thirteen-year-old Gus, sent to live with his grandparents in Vermont while his mother recovers from tuberculosis and his father serves in the Army Air Corps during World War II, learns lessons about life, responsibility, and friendship while hatching and raising a brood of orphaned ducks, and getting to know and understand his neighbor Louise Lavictoire.
11) Nora's ark
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During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.
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