The Orchard

The OrchardFor generations, Ellie Hostetler's family has tended their Lancaster County orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. Yet when Evan's draft number is called up in the lottery for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status, despite their Old Order Amish belief in nonresistance. The faraway war that has caused so much turmoil and grief among their Englisher neighbors

and Percy is the prime suspect

and works on packaging and advertisement campaigns

unlikely hero that every family can relate to

adventures

Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution

Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner

So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing

But no matter what field they choose to go into as adults

When a baby is discovered floating in a basket along the canals of 1807 Venice

She doesn't want them

The cause: Daniel Grant

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