In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.
- ISBN10 038590021X
- ISBN13 9780385900218
- Publish Date 2 December 2005 (first published 1 October 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Delacorte Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 169
- Language English