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The Peaches are going to spend the summer traveling the country selling pies. ![]() Then their dad makes a big announcement: one of the inventions their mom came up with before she passed away has sold, and now they're millionaires!īut Dad has bigger plans than blowing the cash on fun stuff or investing it. Freddy wants to work on his art projects (when he isn't stuck in summer school). Lucy wants to read all of the books on the summer reading list. Īfter a tough year, Lucy, Freddy, and Herb Peach are ready for vacation. Perfect for readers who gobbled down The Penderwicks and The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street. Mix together a used food truck, a road trip that doesn't exactly go as planned, and a lot of pie, and you have the recipe for this sweet middle grade series starter brimming with humor, heart, and a family you'll fall in love with. ![]() ![]() ![]() On your sixteenth birthday, how would you feel about being forced to have the surgery to become pretty? 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In 1678, Samuel Shaw, a late Renaissance schoolmaster, published a APA style: Synecdoche, Tropic Violence, and Shakespeare's Imitatio in Titus Andronicus. ![]() Synecdoche, Tropic Violence, and Shakespeare's Imitatio in Titus Andronicus." Retrieved from 2000 Northern Illinois University 29 May. MLA style: "Synecdoche, Tropic Violence, and Shakespeare's Imitatio in Titus Andronicus." 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