Evie (Eve) is an eleven-year-old whose Mom died from cancer. Her dad buys a seemingly dead apple orchard in New York, so Evie and her dad make the move to New York. Evie's not too happy about moving. She really misses her mom, and her dad seems so distant. This book is really about grief and coping with loss in a family. It's done in a really creative way. The summary in the front of the book says, "Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes."
Topics: mom has died, New York, apple orchard, magic seed, moving to a new place, superstitions, curses, ghosts, father/daughter relationships, Garden of Eden, choices, missing your mom, death, grief, loss
Genre: realistic with fantasy elements (technically fantasy, but so little of it is actually fantasy)
Audience: anyone who's dealt with loss; any middle schooler (wouldn't consider it a "girl" book only)
Mrs. Beckwith's rating: 5 of 5
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