Apple Crush: (A Graphic Novel) (Peapod Farm)

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As she starts the sixth grade, she finds that her stepsister seems way more interested in crushes and boys than hanging out with her, while Jen wants to know when the world decided boys and girls couldn’t be “just friends” anymore. After spending years firmly working in non-fiction, she made transition to middle-grade fiction in 2020 with “Stepping Stones.

It’s funny because I feel like writing fiction is actually more personal and exposes yourself more than non-fiction. They have multiple graphic novel reading clubs for kids and we’re sandwiched in between that and the library which has multiple graphic novel reading clubs for kids. I found out later that this is actually a sequel, so I'm excited to go back and read the first in the series (Stepping Stones). Really all there is to look forward to is working at the local pumpkin farm where Jen and Andy are helping to set up the haunted hayride.

I’m like, “Oh, I would like these trees to be autumnal and multifaceted and colorful” and she’s like “great. He’s almost six – the stuff my son reads is so different from the work I make and the work that I imagine making but I feel like it all informs it. The taste of sharp, crisp green apple is sweetened by a medley of juicy and sweet tropical flavours. Knisley does a stellar job capturing the confusion of middle school and exploring how children grapple with challenges like divorce and blended families…. And in your memoirs you’ll have recipes, which I’m sure your mom is very happy to have had those shared.

These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. This was a really cute graphic novel about friendships, blended families, and navigating those awkward adolescent years. This sequel involves much less unpleasant family drama than the first book in the series, mainly because the stepdad gets a lot less page time. To this day, we’ll go back to visit my mom in the springtime and her friend has a sugar shack where they do a maple boil every year and you can huddle around this maple scented boil and drink sweetened sap cocktails and things that are really lovely. She perfectly captured the pressure kids start feeling in middle school about romantic relationships despite not feeling remotely ready for them.To prep for this interview, I read a whole bunch of your books from my library because I realized I’d only read a couple of them and I was like, oh, we’ve got them all. In anticipation of the sequel, “Apple Crush,” coming out May 3rd, Lucy took time out of her busy schedule to sit down with us to talk about farm life, the challenges of separating non-fiction from fiction, and the kinds of Halloween houses we all wish were in our neighborhoods.