Chapter Book Chips - "The Year Money Grew On Trees" by Aaron Hawkins

Jackson Jones faces the prospect of a summer vacation spent working in a scrap yard. But fate intervenes in the form of his neighbor, Mrs. Nelson. She wants to find someone to take care of her late husband's apple orchard. She and Jackson sign a contract that says if he can sell $8,000.00 worth of apples she will sign over the orchard to him. Jackson thinks this sounds like a much better way to spend his summer. He enlists the help of his siblings and his cousins and together they set to work to raise and harvest the apples from 300 trees. But they have no idea what hard work they have let themselves in for. First the trees need pruning, then there is the danger of a freeze. After that, they must protect the trees from worms. And they need manure spread to fertilize them and an irrigation system set up to water them. They accomplish all of this with incredible dedication, but just when the apples are ready to harvest they face some bad luck. Will they get the apples picked in time? And will Mrs. Nelson live up to her agreement to give Jackson the orchard if he is successful? "The Year Money Grew on Trees" is a story of the satisfaction of seeing a project through to the finish and the joy of growing and harvesting a crop of your own.

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