Taylor McNamara is twelve. She likes to shop, watch TV, and hang out with friends. She is an excellent student. Unfortunately, she's discombobulated. In the middle of August, Two Guys With ATruck moved her family from their Minneapolis neighborhood, with its Mall of the Americas, to a farm 100 miles away. The closest town is Melberg (population 7,380). The population of the farm is 77 - 40 chickens, 20 sheep, 10 ducks, 4 goats, and three humans. Now Taylor has to figure out how to make new friends, fit into a new school and a new town, and learn about sheep, goats, ducks, and chickens. Erk! One of her new friends, Megan, decides to help Taylor escape from farm life with her TEFF plot - Taylor Escapes From Farm - research statements on the dangers of farming which are left all around Taylor's house, Taylor getting bad grades and detentions...and Taylor giving up another new friend, Carleigh, a farm kid.
"A baseball has a rubber core wrapped with 220 yards of wool yarn."
Mark Twain Award Preliminary Nominee 2013-14
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