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Hopkinson, Deborah.
APPLES TO OREGON: BEING THE (SLIGHTLY) TRUE NARRATIVE OF
HOW A BRAVE PIONEER FATHER BROUGHT APPLES, PEACHES, PEARS,
PLUMS, GRAPES, AND CHERRIES (AND CHILDREN) ACROSS THE PLAINS
New York : Atheneum Books For Young Readers, 2004
IL K-3, RL 4.8
ISBN 0689847696
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 Here is a hilarious tall tale told by Delicious, the nonedible apple of her daddy’s eye. She tells a tale of her Papa, Henderson Luelling, packing up the family (his wife and all eight children) and all his precious apple trees and other fruit trees and setting off from Iowa to Oregon in 1847. The trail is cruel and long. It takes a lot of quick thinking and wits from the family to get those precious trees safely to Oregon.  (Prepared by: Donna Myles for SCASL Picture Book Awards, 2007-2008)
SUBJECTS:     Fruit trees -- Fiction.
                        Apples -- Fiction.
                        Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
                        Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Fiction.
                        Tall tales.

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