Ice Cream Summer
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Four friends live and work together on a New England apple orchard in this first novel of a brand-new series about the bonds of friendship.
Welcome to the Orchard!
Every summer the Garrison Family Apple Orchard opens its ice cream stand and lets two kids run the show. Now it’s best friends Lizzie and Sarah’s turn.
Then new kids Olive and Peter join their ice cream team. Sarah had big plans and she’s not too happy about sharing the stand or her best friend. But a disaster at the grand opening results in a mysteriously empty cash register, these four kids have to become good friends—and expert detectives—before this Ice Cream Summer turns into the Worst Summer Ever.
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In this first book in the Orchard Novel series, 11-year-old Sarah is overjoyed that she and her best friend Lizzie will be spending the summer operating the ice cream stand at Lizzie's family orchard. Sarah hopes that the job will bring her closer to Lizzie, since they "didn't always like the same things anymore," but those hopes are dashed when Lizzie invites two other children, twins Olive and Peter, to help out. Normally welcoming, Sarah turns petty toward the twins, which only widens the gap between Lizzie and her. Atwood's (the Dear Molly, Dear Olive series) story follows a well-worn trajectory of friendship ups and downs, and although there's quite a bit of sobbing, "snort-laughing," and ice cream similes ("The news hit them like an ice cream cone splatting on a sidewalk"), it emphasizes the importance of open-mindedness, empathy, and inclusion. Andrewson's swoopy b&w cartoons channel the energy of a sugar high while visually establishing the multicultural community Atwood has assembled. Ages 7 11.
