Barn Boot Blues, Catherine Friend
Barn Boot Blues, Catherine Friend
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Barn Boot Blues

Author: Catherine Friend

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 3 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2012

Synopsis

Meet Taylor McNamara: She’s twelve. She’s a city girl. But her parents have just moved her to a sheep farm in the middle of nowhere. Meet the farm animals: 40 chickens, 20 sheep, 10 ducks, and 4 goats, one of which can pee on his own head. Meet the principal and kids in Taylor’s new school: Kids tease her about her ugly barn boots and the chicken poop in her hair, yet they admire her pluck. Taylor struggles to adapt to her new life, but finds it hard to adjust to the farm’s daily surprises, especially those that prove to be embarrassing at school. With the help of her friend Megan, Taylor embarks on a nearly disastrous plan to move her family back to the city. But one lonely night, in the barn, Taylor discovers that farming isn’t all bad.

About Catherine Friend

Catherine Friend left a career in technical writing in Minneapolis to move with her spouse to a small farm in southeastern Minnesota. Her adult memoirs, Hit by a Farm and Sheepish, chronicle her many adventures and mishaps in the country. Her children’s picture book, The Perfect Nest, was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best read-aloud books of 2007. While she’s not always comfortable with every aspect of farming, Catherine is proud that she’s learned to take the wool from her sheep’s backs and knit it into very cool socks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on February 06, 2012

Cute, predictable, nothing mind-blowing, but enjoyable. The writing style was fine. Possibly the best part was- no weird, stupid names!! I'm so sick of weird names in j fic. Anyway, I did think about Bonnie the whole time they were doing the lamb birth scenes. Appropriate for a younger audience of s......more

Goodreads review by Nischita on June 11, 2023

i wish goodreads had half-increments cuz i'd give this book 3.5 stars but i'll be nice and round up. the "city-girl has to work on a farm against her will" trope is always fun and this is proof of that, but (there's a high possibility i could be remembering this wrong) i feel like i remember the "on......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on November 30, 2017

Great book Great book for my 8 yr old daughter. She started reading and finished it with in a few hours. She couldn’t put it down.......more

Goodreads review by Loren on January 14, 2019

it was really good......more

Goodreads review by Ally on September 17, 2017

delightfully funny story......more

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