Careers in Agriculture
Bial, Raymond, Corn Belt Harvest,
Houghton Mifflin, 1991. (Grades 3-6)
A straightforward presentation
of current American practice in raising and using "the most
abundant grain in the Western Hemisphere" --not just methods
of planting, harvest, storage, and marketing, but telling details
about living in corn country. Like the text, the author's color
photos are clear and informative.
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Collins, David, George
Washington Carver: Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist, Watts,
1990 (Grades 4-7).
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Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie, A Farm of
Her Own, Dutton, 2001 (Grades K-3)
Ten-year-old city-dweller
Emma spends a summer with Aunt Ada and Uncle Will at Sunnyside Farm.
Years later, Emma raises her own family at the same farm.
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Maze, Stephanie, and Catherine O'Neill
Grace, I Want to Be a Veterinarian, Harcourt Brace, 1998.
(Grades 4-7)
Filled with full-color photographs
and fascinating information about veterinary medicine, this edition
covers the history of veterinary science, educational requirements,
vocabulary, unusual facts, and other facts about being a veterinarian.
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Nelson, Marilyn, Carver: A Life in
Poems, Front Street, 2001. (Young Adult)
One of the very few black
Americans accorded great respect before the 1960s was botanist and
educator George Washington Carver. In this biography in poems, Nelson
traces Carver from his recovery after being kidnapped in infancy
to his death. The life in between is characterized by hard work,
intellectual curiosity, personal humility, devotion to the betterment
of black Americans, enormous self-possession, and practical Christian
piety.
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Williams, Sherley Anna, Working Cotton,
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich,
1992. (Grades preK-3)
Shelan, the young child of
two migrant workers, follows her parents into the fields to help
them pick cotton during a long day of work, in a dramatically illustrated
study of migrant family life.
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Willis, Jean, and Tony Ross, I Want
to Be a Cowgirl, Henry Holt, 2002. (Grades K-2)
In this playful ode to the
Wild West, a small girl would gladly exchange her big city life
for big sky country. Her three-piece-suited daddy seems bemused
by her longings, patiently trying to reclaim his converted hat
and the white shag rug (with a suspicious chaps-shaped hole cut
out of it). But "I don't want to be a girly girl / Who likes
to sit and chat. / I just want to be a cowgirl, Daddy, / What's
so wrong with that?"
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