Cañon City Public Library

Offers a moving story about a special animal sanctuary where a host of animals dealing with various issues have found a place to call their own, including a toothless pony who survived a fire and a former cockfighting rooster who likes to dine with his human companion.

"It's lambing season at Oak Tree Farm! When a little lamb loses his mother, Jasmine names him Lucky and steps in to bottle-feed him and patiently help him learn to walk. With a sheepdog to train and two helpless baby birds to raise, it's hard work for Jasmine to juggle all of her animals, even with the help of her best friend, Tom. But when sheep rustlers strike her family's flock, taking Lucky with them, Jasmine will have to summon the courage for...

The animals in the barnyard discuss the New One that is coming and eventually discover that there is a new baby in the house.

"When baby sheepdog Maisie moves to a new farm, she learns about each animal's special job and soon learns what her job will be"--

Introduces young readers to animals that can be found on a farm, such as pigs, sheep, horses, and cows, and describes the ways in which they help people.

"On a trip to the local fair, Jasmine and her best friend, Tom, discover an orphaned baby goat for sale. The owner says he cannot raise her, so this seems like the perfect use for their spending money. But getting the goat home without Jasmine's parents realizing is nearly impossible, and so is keeping her inside a pen-Willow loves to jump! Jasmine decides to enter the goat in an agility contest (sheepdogs, move over) to show Mom and Dad just how...

"A bundled-up turkey gives away pieces of its own winter clothing to chilly animal friends"--

Right from the start, everyone at the barnyard could tell Jasper wasn't like his siblings: "I believe what we have here is a gen-u-WINE Business Pig!" No wallowing in the mud or rooting for grubs for Jasper; he'd rather help with the bookkeeping or conduct a meeting. Though everyone at the animal sanctuary loves him, Jasper longs for a forever home. But no matter how many business cards he hands out, no one wants to adopt him. Can this above-average...

A mother hen wakes up one morning to find a gigantic egg among the others in her nest and goes in search of the egg's origin.

Farmer Brown is busy decorating for Santa's arrival, but Duck gets the whole barnyard stuck in a predicament that could ruin Christmas. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.