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1) Watercress
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Language
English
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AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (kids)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (WPLD)
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Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Peppa, George, Mummy Pig, and Daddy Pig celebrate the start of fall by going on a trip to the apple orchard. They will bake the apples into a delicious pie for Granny and Grandpa Pig--and Daddy Pig knows a special trick for getting the juiciest, most delicious apples!
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Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Emma, a deaf girl, and her best friend Izzie are going to the apple orchard today in order to pick apples for cooking, but their basket of apples ends up in the mud. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions.
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English
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"Grab the wagon, it's a bright autumn day and the trees are full of ripe, red apples! There's an apple festival underway at the farm and lots of work to do making cider. This visit finishes with a cider doughnut and a cup of freshly pressed cider. DELICIOUS! Told in crisp, action-driven thymes from a young child's point of view, From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! is a realistic account of how apple cider is pressed, flavored with the charm and vigor...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
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OBD Plant a Seed: Summer Reading 2026 - YOUTH
Plant a Seed: Summer Reading 2026, Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
SGPL 2026 Youth Media Awards (Kids)
Plant a Seed: Summer Reading 2026, Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
SGPL 2026 Youth Media Awards (Kids)
Description
"One spring day, little Midori asks Jiichan, her grandfather, if the peaches on her family's farm are ripe yet. To her surprise, he asks," Does it taste like a story? That's when you know it is ripe." As Jiichan teaches her about her Japanese American heritage and her family's deep connection to this land, Midori begins to realize the patience, hard work, and endurance that allowed their roots to grow.Poetic and powerful, Every Peach Is a Story is...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sam is finally old enough to help his parents harvest cranberries on their family farm in Wisconsin, from flooding the field to prepare the vines for the picking machine to delivering the fruit to receiving station. Includes recipes for cranberry sauce and cranberry pie, author's note, and glossary.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Publication Date
[2002]
Language
English
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OBD Apples - YOUTH
OBD Fall Books - YOUTH
OBD Plant a Seed: Summer Reading 2026 - YOUTH
On The Farm - ROD Children's
OBD Fall Books - YOUTH
OBD Plant a Seed: Summer Reading 2026 - YOUTH
On The Farm - ROD Children's
Description
Alex and Abigail join the whole family in processing and selling apples and apple cider at their grandfather's farm.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Soon after the sun rises, a young girl and her mother set out on the bus, riding knee to knee to visit their mulberry tree in the English countryside. With buckets and tubs in hand for collecting berries, the two spend the day together picnicking, waiting out a summer shower under their tree, and searching high and low for the best mulberries, the ones that are tucked away from the world. When the sun starts to set, they head home to bake a delicious...
Author
Publisher
YeeHoo Press
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A rumination on our ability to recognize our interconnectedness with all people, that in order to eat a single meal, it takes the whole world to make it. There's something special bubbling in Nanni's big metal pot. And it smells delicious! What ingredients might be inside? When Nanni lifts the lid on her soup, she reveals the whole world inside: from the seeds that grew into vegetables, to the gardeners who lovingly tended to the plants, to the sun,...
14) Harvest time
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Children's Pub
Publication Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Description
Little Critter and his younger sister help their grandparents pick pumpkins and apples, take down the scarecrow, and do other chores at harvest time.
16) Berros
Author
Publisher
Vista Higher Learning
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A girl tells the tale of making hay as Mom uses a mower for mowing grass, then a tedder for aerating the grass, and eventually a baler. Told in rhyme and illustrated with fabulous art by Joe Cepeda, each part of the process is a celebration of summer, farming, and the mother-daughter relationship. Back matter includes a glossary.
18) Green Tractor
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Helping the farmer get everything ready for Harvest Day, Green Tractor can't wait for the children to arrive so he can pull the wagon for the hayride!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
From the whippoorwill's call on the first day of spring through the first snowfall, Edna and members of her family gather fruits, berries, and vegetables from the fields, garden, and orchard on their Virginia farm and turn them into wonderful meals. Includes facts about the life of Edna Lewis, a descendant of slaves who grew up to be a famous chef, and five recipes.
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
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OBD Native American Heritage Month (November) - YOUTH
Plant a Seed: Summer Reading 2026, Readers (SCPL-YS)
Plant a Seed: Summer Reading 2026, Readers (SCPL-YS)
Description
"Molly and her family take a trip to their favorite berry-picking spot, but their fun is cut short by a swarm of pesky bugs!"--Page 4 of cover.


