When first-grader Roscoe Riley goes on a school field trip to an apple orchard carrying his sister's fortune-telling ball, the outlook is cloudy.

Returning home to Apple Creek after being away for six years, Carl Hilty, hoping to reconnect with May, who blames herself for the accident that left him devastatingly burned, believes she no longer wants anything to do with him until his tightknit Amish community shows him otherwise.

Myles and his family go to his grandparents' apple ranch, where they have a wonderful time picking and selling apples together.

Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.

Sheep on a deep-sea voyage run into trouble when it storms and are glad to come paddling into port.

When sheep dress up to go trick-or-treating at a nearby farm, their costumes scare away some wolves lurking in the woods.

When Rebecca Switzer attempts to track down her first love, cowboy Jesse Montgomery, she gets caught up in the middle of a temperance riot and is arrested along with the leaders, and the town Sheriff, Colin Maddox, quickly loses his heart to her.

"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts...