An unusual and captivating novel brimming with a sense of can-do and earned independence.
"Jackson, how much is each apple worth?"
I looked back at her like she had asked me to build a TV. I had no idea how much an apple was worth. All I knew was we needed enough of them to add up to the $8,000 that the contract said I owed Mrs. Nelson.
Jackson Jones is surrounded by three hundred wild apple trees and he needs to make them grow apples—thousands and thousands of apples. But what do he and his sisters and cousins know about pruning, irrigating, fertilizing, and pest control? To say nothing of driving a tractor that no one understands how to operate? And even assuming they can make the apples grow, how can they pick and sell enough of them in time?
With frostbitten fingers, stinking shoes, sleepless nights, and sore muscles, fourteen-year-old Jackson and his crew unexpectedly discover the lost art of winging it—and have the time of their lives.
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