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Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Vincent is staying with his aunt Mimi for the summer while his mom recuperates from surgery. Mimi's drab city neighborhood, complete with an empty dirt lot across the street, doesn't seem too promising. But then Vincent meets Toma, a boy who lives nearby, and things start looking up. Mimi has a mysterious box of dirt balls in her apartment. When she asks Vincent to get rid of them, the fun Vincent and Toma have throwing them into the lot becomes the...
5) The protest
Author
Series
Publisher
Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Lily and her friends organize a protest in order to save their neighborhood public garden from being demolished"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Isabella's garden and the amazing things that can come from the tiniest of seeds, how they bloom and flourish and make way for a whole new season of growth. Told in the style of the favorite nursery rhyme, The House That Jack Built, this book will sure to win the hearts of its readers.
7) The garden
Author
Series
Confetti kids volume 5
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Lily invites her friends to volunteer at the community garden, they learn how to dig, plant seeds, and patiently wait for their plants to grow. Includes instructions for growing snap peas at home.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The garden was old and forgotten, with a tumbledown wall and a one-wheeled barrow. So they moved in one by one, by one. What may appear to be an abandoned garden is actually home to an eclectic array of insects, from a ladybug who prefers making mud angels to acting like a lady, to a roly-poly bug who loves to roll, to a cricket who dreams of grand adventures. Come peek between the blades of grass at the secret lives of a garden's tiniest inhabitants....
10) Grow
Author
Publisher
Amicus Ink
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"A young girl's seed of an idea to clean up an abandoned inner city lot grows into something big when neighbors to work together to create a garden full of color and life"--
Author
Series
Where in the garden? volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Miguel has many plants in his community garden, and today he must find his sunflowers. Let's help Miguel look for them!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Lantana Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a plot of land at the edge of town, Ana grows only perfectly sized plants and perfect-looking flowers; she throws all the irregular shoots and uneven seeds over the wall into the disorderly Wild. But as her garden gets tidier, neater and more constrained, the Wild begins to grow...
13) Joy takes root
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature."--
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A whimsical book about a girl who gets swept away by the wind while preparing for a tea party. She flies away on a lively little adventure, before returning to her party with the realization that an imperfect but adventuresome tea party might be more fun after all"--
15) Growing season
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
El and Jo are the smallest students in their class-and best friends, too, like peas in a pod. Even their names are short. But in springtime, something BIG happens: Jo starts growing like a weed, while El feels smaller every day. On the last day of school, their teacher asked every child to pick a plant to care for over the summer. All the other kids reach over El to grab their plant, and she has to take the very last one: a tiny, flowerless aster....
16) Teeny tiny bunny
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Join this teeny tiny bunny on a big adventure through the vegetable garden--a charming springtime tale!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Corduroy has an important job. After planting some beans in her garden, Lisa leaves Corduroy in charge of watching them. But when he falls asleep and a puppy digs up the seeds, Corduroy must find a way to save the day!"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Grandma says she's seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn't believe her. She's too old to play Grandma's silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So, even when Nora sees butterflies with wings as big as her arm, and plants that try and eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing, she knows there's absolutely, definitely no way there could be a tiger in the garden. Could there?
Author
Publisher
Boxer Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jasmine's garden has the most delicious fruit in the village--but someone is eating all her beautiful apples and apricots, kiwis and kumquats, papayas and peaches. Determined to discover the thief's identity, Jasmine waits ... and waits. Little does she imagine that when he arrives, he'll lead her on a magical journey through the skies.
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