For 11th grader Lindy Shaw, nothing is going as planned. After an injury derails her summer plans, she accepts a tutoring job only to learn the students are probation department teens. When an uncle disappears, her family coalesces to find him and in the process discovers a deeper truth. The Red of an Apple is YA contemporary fiction set in Toronto, a coming-of-age inspirational story with issues of adolescence, family, and friendships.