In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.

Fancy Nancy is after the most perfect apple for her dad at the apple orchard. But is the most perfect apple out of reach?

Feeling out of sorts with his twin sister, Olive, and their friends Lizzie and Sarah, Peter is drawn to new student Kai, but soon discovers that Kai is not very nice.

Little Apple Goat's love of apples, cherries, and pears helps her plant an orchard for the animals on the farm.