It may get cooler when the season changes from summer to fall, but everyone knows that the food gets better and better. Going apple picking is a great fall activity, and it sure is delicious! Whether you use a ladder, climb a tree, or grab them off some low branches, there’s nothing like biting into a fresh apple. With accessible text and exciting color photographs, beginning readers will head to the apple orchards and see what it’s like to go apple picking for themselves in this exciting book.

Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take his freshly picked, ripe, red strawberry for himself.

One penny. In the hot, mean summer of 1933, a penny is enough to buy caramels or red hots or peppermint sticks or licorice strings. Is it enough to buy Miss Elsie's Strawberry Farm? There's only one way to find out. Davey takes a deep breath and shouts, "One penny for Strawberry Farm!" Set during the Great Depression, and illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Rachel Isadora, Saving Strawberry Farm brings Davey's Midwestern town to life as friends and neighbors plan to save the farm the only way they can -- with a secret penny auction!

It's 1942: Tomi Itano, 12, is a second-generation Japanese American who lives in California with her family on their strawberry farm. Although her parents came from Japan and her grandparents still live there, Tomi considers herself an American. She doesn't speak Japanese and has never been to Japan. But after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, things change. No Japs Allowed signs hang in store windows and Tomi's family is ostracized. Things get much worse. Suspected as a spy, Tomi's father is taken away. The rest of the Itano family is sent to an internment camp in Colorado. Many other Japanese American families face a similar fate. Tomi becomes bitter, wondering how her country could treat her and her family like the enemy. What does she need to do to prove she is an honorable American? Sandra Dallas shines a light on a dark period of American history in this story of a young Japanese American girl caught up in the prejudices and World War II.

Travel.

The Strawberry Farm is a series of heart racing, thrilling adventures that happen across the universe. Amazing creatures and bizarre events will make you keep turning the pages for more. Tootle Pookie has only split seconds to save galaxies, stars, planets and their peoples from horrible disasters and complete destruction. Just one wrong decision can wipe out the planet or the galaxy from the cosmos forever! In the world of The Strawberry Farm, things change so suddenly and so drastically that you never know what will happen next!

This is the third book in the Henratty Mortimer series. Find out what happens to Henratty and her meerkat friends on an innocent day out strawberry picking! Find out how the meerkats end up deep underground, what other animals are living there and why, and what secret some of the animals are keeping. This is an adventurous tale full of humour and wit. All the books have an underlying value and this book is 'Love thy neighbour'. There is an animal character that children and adults alike can really relate to, like Enoch the mole and the Poppy the worm. This book also introduces readers to the meerkat superheroes, the MightyKats. Other books by Henrietta Defreitas with value: Oscar's Birthday - Share and share alike - 'the green-eyed monster'. The Meerville Myth - Good will always conquer evil. Skylark - Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.