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.

Field trip today -- to the apple farm! Count 20 name tags, 19 kids on the bus, 18 miles to the farm. There are 14 cows and 13 ducks (10 white and 3 black), and 12 rows of apple trees. Count the apples in your sack, count 3 pies to eat (divided into 20 pieces), and all too soon it's 2 o'clock, time to go! But wait -- Lee has a number 1 surprise.

Freddy and his first-grade classmates visit an apple orchard and participate in a search for a hidden apple in the trees, but Freddy worries Max Sellars is going to cheat so he can win the five dollar prize.

While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young Muslim immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks perfectly complements the other students' red apples.

Hetty is very careful with the eggs she has bought on her very first trip to the store, but she runs into trouble when she stops to pick apples.

Mac the apple and Will the worm set out for a perfect day at the watering hole, and although little goes as they plan, friendship, imagination, and a sense of fun make everything turn out fine.

Dragon is lonely so he goes looking for a friend and when an apple falls on his head he is convinced that he has found one; but at home Apple is quiet and unresponsive, and when a visit to the doctor only makes things worse, Dragon mourns the loss of his friend--until an apple tree grows where Apple is buried.

Rhyming text shows all the imaginative things you can do with an apple.

Five little ducks ride bicycles and gather apples to make a sweet treat.

While selling candy apples, Red Panda worries that he will not have enough for all his friends and himself.