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Peaches (Peaches, #1)

Jodi Lynn Anderson

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Jun 24, 2009 Joanie rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, from-the-library, chick-lit, summer-challenge

This book is written in the style of "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" (actually I read here on goodreads that this author actually proposed the format but that Brashares was hired by the publisher to write the first books in that style-not sure if it's true but it makes sense I guess.) It tell the story of 3 teenage girls who are brough together one spring then summer at a peach orchard. The girls are very different but become great friends blah, blah, blah-it's nothing new but it still made ...more

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Jul 07, 2009 Tara rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult

I think this story is a good cross between The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Breakfast club. It was a fun book to read and the dynamics of the three girls (Birdie, Leeda, and Murphy) was great. They were believable characters. It was a great summer read, and I wish I could have read it out by the pool (unfortunately 2 young kids would never let me). I am probably going to read the other books in the series to see where the story goes from here.

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Dec 26, 2020 Susan rated it liked it

Shelves: digital, own, fiction, own-nook

I guess this is a "coming of age" story, though I'm never quite sure what that means. The primary characters are three very different teenage girls thrown together in unusual circumstances over the course of a summer working together on a peach farm. It did not draw me in like the only other book of Anderson's I've read so far, Tiger Lily. But I liked it ok. It's nice to think that kids in the right situation can actually learn to look past the prejudices they learn in their families and see the ...more

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