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1) Birnam Wood
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"The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"--
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April Showers and May Flowers
Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
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Lola plants a flower garden with her parents' help, and watches it grow.
3) Green angel
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Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.
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Early Literacy & Story Times- BBTL Teacher Training Book List
Getting in the Garden
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Getting in the Garden
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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"Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in thedirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves... and down in the dirt"--Publisher.
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"Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running, even if she must do it alone. When she discovers that Isaac McTavish has feelings for her, she pushes him away to protect her heart. But how can she build the life she's always dreamed of when unexpected dangers arrive?"--
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Twelve-year-old June Delancey is determined to beat her anxiety and become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees, and with the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true.
13) Counting by 7s
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Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
15) Pumpkin, pumpkin
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Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it, and saves some seeds to plant in the spring.
16) The carrot seed
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Everyone tells a small boy that the carrot seed he has planted will never grow, but his patience is rewarded.
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A New Look at Thanksgiving Using Children's Literature
Gardening Stories
Picture Books for National Farmers Market Week!
Soup Month for Kids
Gardening Stories
Picture Books for National Farmers Market Week!
Soup Month for Kids
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A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.
18) Isabel in bloom
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Making friends in a new city, and new country, is hard for twelve-year-old Filipina-American Isabel, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school helps her find her way.
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Louise Eldridge is taking her public television garden show on the road—to Hawaii! But the tropical paradise isn't so idyllic once murder makes an unexpected appearance. . .
Lush with hibiscus, ficus, plumeria, and monkeypod trees, the island of Kauai is the perfect place for Louise to film a few episodes of Gardening with Nature.
After their shoot at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Louise unwinds with a sunset walk on the beach....
Lush with hibiscus, ficus, plumeria, and monkeypod trees, the island of Kauai is the perfect place for Louise to film a few episodes of Gardening with Nature.
After their shoot at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Louise unwinds with a sunset walk on the beach....
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Iris Maynard lost her husband in World War II, her daughter to illness and, finally, her reason to live. Walled off from the world for decades behind the towering fence surrounding her home, Iris has built a new family...of flowers. Iris propagates her own daylilies and roses while tending to a garden filled with the heirloom starts that keep the memories of her loved ones alive. When Abby Peterson moves next door with her family--a husband traumatized...