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Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 130
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Alden children discover another mystery when they agree to help injured Mr. Yee tend to his plot in the community garden and find out that vegetables are going missing and plots are being vandalized.
Author
Language
English
Description
Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
While caring for her Japanese mother, an unnamed narrator, preoccupied with her mother's garden, embarks on a torrid affair with an arborist equally fascinated by it and as she becomes obsessed with the awakening of her own body, she begins to see her mother's illness as part of a natural order.
6) My garden
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this queer reimaging of The secret garden, fifteen-year-old orphan Mary sets off to live in the Georgian Bay wilds where she discovers family secrets both wonderful and horrifying.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith. But as Emma dives deeper into the gardens' past, she begins to uncover secrets that have long lain hidden. 1907: A talented artist with a growing reputation for her ambitious work, Venetia Smith...
Author
Series
Kitty volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kitty and her feline friends discover a secret roof garden and learn all about plants and gardening.
11) My Baba's garden
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story about the special relationship between a child and his grandmother and the time they spend looking for worms for the garden.
12) Garden spells
Author
Series
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it....
14) Holes in the sky
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
16) Anywhere farm
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
All it takes for an anywhere farm is one farmer, plus soil and sunshine, some water, and a seed.
Author
Publisher
Viking, Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1943, and the White House is busy with the war effort. Diana Hopkins only wants to help, but doesn't know what a ten-year-old can do - until the Roosevelts come up with the idea of Victory Gardens, and Diana suddenly has the important job of Victory Gardener for the White House"--
Author
Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On her last stop in Japan, eight-year-old Jasmine cherishes the time spent with her family, and plants a garden to ensure a lasting connection with her Obaachan even after returning home.
Author
Series
Zapato power volume 11
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Freddie and Mr. Vaslov see a meteor fall, Freddie tries to find a meteorite for Mr. Vaslov's birthday and while searching, Freddie and Amy also decide to see if the old school garden can be restored.
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