The Peach Thief

by Linda Joan Smith

This shimmering middle-grade debut set in 1850s Lancashire, England, explores longing, belonging, and the courage it takes to find your place--and bloom.

The night that workhouse orphan Scilla Brown dares to climb the Earl of Havermore's garden wall, she wants only to steal a peach--the best thing she's ever tasted in her hard, hungry life. But when she's caught by the earl's head gardener and mistaken for a boy, she grabs on to something...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1536237787
• ISBN13: 9781536237788
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7