Nice Work

Nice Work - Hardcover

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Nice Work - Hardcover

Nice Work - Hardcover

by Nicholas Day
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Book Overview

A wise and tender story about the patience needed for a tree-and a friendship-to grow, from award-winning author Nicholas Day.

All he wanted was a peach tree: Because when you eat a ripe peach, you get sticky and sweet, and if you don't wash up, you stay sticky and sweet. And you feel like summer.

But when the tree arrives in the spring, it isn't a tree. It's a stick. Nice work, the boy tells his parents. You bought a stick. Even his friend Maya agrees. It's a stick.

Though what happens when you plant a stick, and it grows leaves? What happens when your best friend moves away? What happens when everything that was once clear starts to change?
Here is a story of growth, the enduring power of friendship, the persistence of rabbits--and a single, glorious, impossible peach.
ISBN9780593806296
Author Nicholas Day
PublisherRandom House Studio
GenreChildren
FormatHardcover
PublishedMay 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages40
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Nicholas Day

Nicholas Day has been a wine salesman, a wedding cake baker, a fairground maintenance man, and a stay-at-home father. He is the author of the Sibert Medal-winning title The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity, illustrated by Brett Helquist, and Nothing: John Cage and 4'33", illustrated by Chris Raschka. His writing has also appeared in Slate, Salon, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The Atlantic, among other publications. He lives with his family in Buffalo, NY.

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