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The Rain-Child

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 4, 5
Page count: 13
Categories: Fantasy

Author

Joan
Aiken

Appeared in

Up the Chimney Down

Story Summary

A young boy brought up by an old women comes to believe that an apple tree is his mother, that is until the royal guardsmen come to return him to his rightful throne as king. Years pass and the king dies as does his beloved apple tree in the lonely valley of his birth.