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Reader reviewed by Sara

Each person has their own personality, and their own way of showing it. There are kids who are wild, delicate, and just plain lazy with a pinch of no fun in their life. But could one simple change in their life style change a person? Everyone today are these sort of people; stereotypic, yes, but it is the truth.
Three extremely different girls, end up learning the true meaning of friendship after spending a whole Spring break and summer together. Boys become their top discussion, and all the peaches imaginable.
It was spring time at the Darlington Orchard in Bridgewater, Georgia. Nothing but the scent of peaches roamed the air. About 100 acres and at least eighty-five trees per acre (47); people were already there, awaiting for their first job at the Darlington Orchard.
The Peach trees had tops that were low and dipped like a cereal bowl (34). Each tree had rows of white sandy dirt striping straight paths between them (34) and the branches were dotted with tiny fluorescent green spots.
Murphy McGowan, was a troubled teen. She was always getting herself into trouble. Murphy was missing from her own life and she didnt even know it (2). Her mother was always with a new guy every week, whose ages ranged from 18 to 30. Murphy never liked staying home. When Murphy decides to sneak into Walter Darlingtons house, little did she know, her life that spring was going to change.
Birdie Darlington, the daughter of Walter Darlington lives with the sweet aroma of peaches. All Birdie ever does is work and eat peaches. She never has time to have fun, or do what she wants. With her mother gone, she has become very lonely and sheltered; she is always by herself. To Birdies surprise, life is about to change when spring arrives. Boys will be on her mind and she will finally get her first time kiss. Be lonely anymore is not an option.
Leeda Smith is a very delicate, self conscious girl who didnt get a long with her family. She was loved by just about everyone except her mum (92). To Leeda, her mother cared more about her sister Danay than her. That summer, Leeda, Birdies cousin, decides to stay at Birdies house, at the Orchard to get away from her family. Leeda has everything: her boyfriend, friends, and a place to stay; she just doesnt have the attention she wants from her mother.
Neither of the three girls really enjoyed staying at Darlington Orchard that spring, but when it came time to leave, everyone's minds changed. That summer, each girl came back enjoying their stay with the delicious scent of Peaches in the air. They grew to become great friends who looked out for one another and loved the nature they were surrounded with.
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The book Peaches is a very good book. It had a lot of different types of genre such as, romance, love, passion, comedy, and adventure. It is the type of story that gets you thinking about what may or may not happen next.
The book Peaches is a great book to relate life on. It deals with the life a teenager goes through with boys, family, and friends. The life styles they go through, are the life styles teens today deal with. I encourage everyone to read this book, even if the person is not a reader. Life is short, so make the best of it.
What I liked about this book was how the Author was so in-depth with every thing she described. When she described the Orchard, she was down to every detail about the trees and when she described the person, the author described every last detail that was on the characters leg. Also, in the beginning of the book, each chapter went to each character and how their life styles were. When they all were at the Orchard together was when the author changed the format of her writing. It went from each chapter of a different character to all three characters in the rest of the chapters. I thought that how she wrote everything was amazing.
What I disliked about the book was the fact that she had kept talking about something for a long period of time and that made it boring at times. Some parts are interesting, where other parts were not. It was pretty much easy to follow, but it would, at times, somewhat jump around. The sentences would talk about one thing, go to a whole other discussion, then back to the discussion previous to that.
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The author, Jodi Lynn Anderson, lives in Georgia, where she eats peaches, peach pie, and peach ice cream on a regular basis.