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The Last Apple Tree

ISBN-10: 0823461882
ISBN-13: 9780823461882
Author: Mills, Claudia
Interest Level: 4-7
Publisher: Candlewick

Publication Date: November 2025

Copyright: 2024

Page Count: 272

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Interest Level

Grades 4-7

Reading Level

Guided Reading: S
Accelerated Reader Level: 5.6
Accelerated Reader Points: 8.0

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Death & Dying

Description
When feuding neighbors Sonnet and Zeke are paired up for a class project, they unearth a secret that could uproot Sonnet's family--or allow it to finally heal and grow. Twelve-year-old Sonnet's family has just moved across the country to live with her grandfather after her nana dies. Gramps's once-impressive apple orchard has been razed for a housing development, with only one heirloom tree left. Sonnet doesn't want to think about how Gramps and his tree are both growing old--she just wants everything to be okay. Sonnet is not okay with her neighbor, Zeke, a boy her age who gets on her bad side and stays there when he tries to choose her grandpa to interview for an oral history assignment. Zeke irks Sonnet with his prying questions, bringing out the sad side of Gramps she'd rather not see. Meanwhile, Sonnet joins the Green Club at school and without talking to Zeke about it, she asks his activist father to speak at the Arbor Day assembly--a collision of worlds that Zeke wanted more than anything to avoid. But when the interviews unco
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