Gil is excited when his family moves into a large new home in Tawny Delis. This place has everything. Plenty of rooms for him and his six brothers, plus room to spare for his grandmother and uncle to live with them. There's outbuildings to explore, loads of land for him and his older brother to work on the projects they've always dreamed of building, and an apple tree that seems to have a mind of its own. The apple tree sits in an orchard on the property and seems alive in ways that the other trees aren't. It throws apples at people and seems to be playing pranks on others that Gil keeps getting blamed for. Is the tree just being a pain in the neck, or is it trying to send a message? If only Gil knew what the apple tree knows.
