When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie by Erin Soderberg Downing

But as they get to traveling, pie-making, camping, and chatting to customers, they start to learn new things about themselves and each other. Herb feels guilty, Lucy feels sad, and Freddie is a bit lost overall. The kids are all dealing with losing their mother in own ways. I particularly loved Lucy and felt for her having to step into the big shoes of a parent because her father practically stopped seeing to his kids after his wife died. The Peaches will steal your heart from the first few pages. It did remind me a teeny bit of the Vanderbeekers, although there are fewer kids, a hard-to-like parent, and one less parent.

But along the way, they learn a lot about what really matters. The family plans to also enter a food truck contest at the end of their trip to compete for $10,000. Herb is just happy as long as he gets to swim every single day while they’re on the road. However, she does have a summer reading list that she plans to get through during the summer.

Firstborn and permanent watcher of her siblings, Lucy is suspicious but agrees because she wants her dad to be more present in their lives. The kids are hesitant at first, but Freddie is glad to miss summer school, so he gets on board super quickly. But now one of their mom’s inventions has sold for a lot of money and their dad has bought a food truck and wants them to spend the summer traveling through the country as a family.

Lucy, Freddie, and Herb have spent more time with each other than with their father since their mom died. The Peach family is embarking on The Great Peach Experiment, their first one: making and selling pies out of a food truck! Oh, and they’ll be road tripping the whole summer too. Summary: The Great Peach Experiment #1: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie by Erin Soderberg Downing