The Year Money Grew on Trees

By Hawkins, Aaron

Publishers Summary:
With frostbitten fingers, sleepless nights and sore muscles, 14-year-old Jackson Jones and his posse of cousins discover the lost art of winging it when they take over an orchard of 300 wild apple trees. They know nothing about pruning or irrigation or pest control, but figure it out they must—if they are to avoid losing $8,000 (because of an unfair contract). With spot illustrations for mechanical-loving readers—the gears of a tractor, a plow with disks—and with mathematical calculations of the great mount of money to be earned, this novel has the sort of can-do spirt and sense of earned independence not often found in today's fiction.

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School Library Journal

Reviewed on October 1, 2010

Gr 5-8 An old-fashioned quality permeates this story of a 14-year-old who is hornswoggled by an elderly neighbor in the early 1980s near Farmington, NM. Lured by the promise of gaining ownership of her apple orchard, Jackson agrees to conniving Mrs. Nelson's proposal that if he does all the work and gives her the first $8,000 of proceeds, she will give him the deed to the land. The contract is signed at a lawyer's office. Jackson is as wily as his neighbor, and he manages to gain a work crew of his sisters a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2010

Inspired by the acres of fruit trees that surround his home, thirteen-year-old Jackson stumbles into a career in agriculture and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Junior Library Guild

Reviewed on October 1, 2010

While Aaron R. Hawkins never sugarcoats the difficulties of running an apple orchard, he also shows how rewarding—and fun—hard work can be. It’s touching to see Jackson, his sisters, and his cousins...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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