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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
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Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Introduces orchards through discussion of pollination, fruit development, grafting, fruit processing, pests, pesticides and their effect on the environment, and harvesting. Includes simple recipes using fruit.
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Winslow Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Members of the Rabbit family visit an apple orchard, where they have fun picking apples and discovering their many uses. Includes a recipe for applesauce, directions for a craft activity, and sayings about apples.
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At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison.
In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed...
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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"Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires nothing more than for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that...
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"With the bushels of time they spent organizing their wedding, Meg and Seth didn t have a chance to plan a honeymoon. But now that winter has arrived, there s not much to do at the orchard. So with their shared love of history and all things apple, they pick Thomas Jefferson s orchards at Monticello as the perfect getaway. While they enjoy the beautiful sights, there s a rotten addition to the agenda when Meg s parents discover their handyman dead...
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Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Embarking on a field trip to an apple-picking farm, Nancy enjoys the fancy autumn colors she observes in the orchard and resolves to find a perfect Gala apple for her father but fears the fruit of her choice is too far out of reach.
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Beaming Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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What better way to celebrate than by donning homemade costumes and going to the local apple orchard? In this charming story, a boy and his family enjoy everything the orchard has to offer, including searching for scarecrows, getting lost in a corn maze, and going on a hayride.--
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Bella Vista volume 1
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English
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Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a one hundred-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.
13) Wyatt's wagon
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The thinking of others book volume 2: Including others
Publisher
Tyndale Kids
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wyatt learns valuable lessons about inclusiveness and generosity during an apple-picking expedition to his grandfather's orchard.
14) The orchard
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English
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For generations, Ellie Hostetler's family has tended their orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. But when Evan is drafted for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status. Can Ellie, with the support of a new beau, find the courage to face a future unlike the one she imagined?--Amazon.com.
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Boxcar children volume 67
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The Alden children visit a family friend at his apple orchard which is rumored to be haunted, but instead of a ghost they find that some of the families' valuable antiques are being stolen.
16) Apple countdown
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Rhyming text describes a school field trip to an apple orchard, where the students count down all the things they see, from twenty nametags to one apple pie.
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English
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"Former free spirit Zoe Collins swore she'd never again set foot in Copper Creek or speak to the man who broke her heart. But return she must when her beloved Granny dies, leaving the family legacy to Zoe--a peach orchard nestled at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"One morning at the palace, Jasmine overhears a surprising conversation. A servant claims that there is no fruit to be found in Agrabah! Jasmine heads to the market to figure out what has happened. When a trail of beautiful amethysts leads her to the royal orchards, she discovers that all the fruit and water have been turned into sparkling, shimmering jewels! It's a beautiful sight, but with no fruit to eat or water to drink, the people of Agrabah...
19) The memory trees
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English
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Eight years after her sister Patience's tragic death on her family's remote apple orchard, Sorrow returns to the land, determined to find out what really happened the night Patience died and what other secrets may be waiting for her there.
20) Crazy for apples
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Emma, a deaf girl, and her best friend Izzie are going to the apple orchard today in order to pick apples for cooking, but their basket of apples ends up in the mud. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions.
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