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Author
Series
Bella Vista chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Description
While transforming Bella Vista, her childhood home, into a destination cooking school, chef Isabel Johansen finds her plans interrupted by war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill who has arrived to dig up old history.
Author
Series
Bella Vista chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief biography of John Chapman, the man who planted thousands of apple seeds in the early nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
293 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In early 1980s New Mexico, thirteen-year-old Jackson Jones recruits his cousins and sisters to help tend an elderly neighbor's neglected apple orchard for the chance to make big money and, perhaps, to own the orchard.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
320 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American life and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation's feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. It is a book that does for America's inner frontier what...