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Secrets of Peaches, The
ALAN Review, Summer 2007 by Deweese, Lindsey
The secrets of Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson Harper Collins, 2007, 297 pp., $16.99 Friendship ISBN-13: 978-0-06-073308-7
Darlington Peach Orchard, inauguration grounds for a tenacious friendship between a trio of girls who spent a summer pulling peaches from the branches of its trees. This book picks up where the girls ended their summer in the prequel Peaches.
As Murphey, Leeda, and Birdee approach graduation, they realize the next step of their lives may not be as easily implemented as the formation of their friendship in the orchard. Murphey faces her dream of moving to New York, Leeda faces the obstinacy of her sick mother, and Birdie faces the idea of finding herself alone on the orchard. While the girls confront the issue of what exactly the "next step" means for them, they tackle the true meaning of relationships, friendships, and moving on.
This story is an inspiring read, with well-developed characters and a plot that may send you walking down memory lane, or perhaps cause you to think that some endings are merely just new beginnings.
Lindsey Deweese
Muncie, IN
Copyright Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English Summer 2007
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