Peaches

Peaches is a book 3 girls; Murphy McGowan, Leeda Crawly-Smith, and Birdie Darlington. Each of these girls are at different points in their lives. And all end up meeting each other at the Darlington Peach orchard. The orchard is where Birdie lives with her dad and their house keeper, Poopie(interesting names.). Her mom recently split, and is filing a divorce.At the same time, the orchard is going down hill, her dad is in debt, and just doesn't seem to have the time, or the money to take care of the orchard. This could be their last harvest and Birdie is determined to make sure that there is one following it for sure.
Murphy is sent to the orchard for punishment. She was caught trespassing on the orchard's property fooling around with a guy. She is angry and devastated at having to waste a spring break at a dumb peach orchard. As soon as she sees Birdie and Leeda, she thinks: Birdie- is weak, boring and a suck-up annoying person. She thinks Leeda is a total cut-out of her mom and a wannabe. The last thing Murphy expects is friends and enjoyment, and in the end that is just what she gets.
Leeda is not planning on doing anything this spring break but hanging out with her adorable boyfriend Rex. But those plans get ruined when her mom "suggests" she go to the orchard and help out her uncle Walter(Birdie's dad) at the orchard. All though that is the last thing she wants to do, she desperately wants her mother's affections, that all seem to skip her and go straight to her sister Danay, who is engaged and is all her mother lives for, so she says yes. She finds new friends, lets go of some,and realizes what a couple of weeks in a peach orchard can do to a person. This book is delightfully satisfying and very entertaining with all sorts of surprises!