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 family's valuable antiques are being stolen.
Reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, while tending to his apples and peaches, takes in two very scared and pregnant teenagers, but when men show up with guns, William is set on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect but also to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.
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.
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.
The Clark family keeps busy through all four seasons at their apple orchard, pruning dead branches at the end of winter, carrying the beehives among the trees in May, propping up branches heavy with summer fruit, and harvesting the apples in the fall.
