Anna on the Farm

Mary Downing Hahn. Clarion Books, $15 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-618-03605-9

In this sequel to Anna All Year Round, set just before WWI, nine-year-old Anna is happy to spend a week at her aunt and uncle's farm in Anna on the Farm by Mary Downing Hahn, illus. by Diane de Groat. All runs smoothly until she meets Theodore, who calls her a ""stuck-up city slicker"" and spurs her to prove that she's just as clever and brave as he is. ( Mar.)

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