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Last Apple Tree, The
Claudia Mills
Ages: 12+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House
ISBN: 978-0-8234-5710-6
Keywords: Family/School/Community-interview, friendship, generational memory, heirloom tree, orchard, Arbor day, buried tragedy, activists, death, family, change
Sonnet and Zeke reluctantly agree to collaborate on an oral history project, which leads to discoveries about their families and themselves. Author's note