SuitabookMoving and belonging
Papa relocates the family from Iowa to Oregon, taking treasured fruit trees as well.
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Deborah Hopkinson - Author
A lively family journey turns moving house into an effort to save a collection of fruit trees.
When Papa decides to pull up roots and move from Iowa to Oregon, he can't bear to leave his precious apple trees behind. Or his peaches, plums, grapes, cherries, and pears. Oh, and he takes his family along too. But the trail is cruel -- first there's a river to cross that's wider than Texas...and then there are hailstones as big as plums...and there's even a drought, sure to crisp the cherries. Those poor pippins! Luckily Delicious (the nonedible apple of Daddy's eye) is strong -- as young 'uns raised on apples are -- and won't let anything stop her father's darling saps from tasting the sweet Oregon soil.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA lively family journey turns moving house into an effort to save a collection of fruit trees.
Papa relocates the family from Iowa to Oregon, taking treasured fruit trees as well.
Delicious helps her father try to get the fruit trees through difficult travelling conditions.
Some readers may want to talk about leaving home, facing severe weather and trying to protect living things.
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