Ida B-- : and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world /
Katherine Hannigan.
- 246 pages ; 20 cm.
Parents' Choice, January 2004. Wilson's Children, October 2010. School Library Journal starred, August 2004. Book Links (A.L.A.), September 2004. Booklist starred, August 2004. Horn Book Starred, April 2005. Pub Weekly, July 2004. Kirkus Starred, July 2004. Horn Book, November 2004. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2004.
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.
Family life--Fiction. Schools--Fiction. Nature--Fiction. Sick--Fiction. Cancer--Fiction. Orchards--Fiction. School stories. Fruit culture--Fiction. Family life--Wisconsin--Fiction. Orchards--Fiction.