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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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"Jolie LOVES strawberries and wants to grow her own, but first she has to convince her parents she is responsible enough to take care of plants herself. Once Jolie finally gets her very own strawberry plants she finds out just how delicious (and how hard) it can be to grow your own food"--
85) Grow happy
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"... a gentle narrative about how the main character, Kiko, cultivates happiness. The story provides a metaphor that compares the cultivation of a garden to the nurturing of happiness"--
86) Bloom
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A mother and child plant flower bulbs in the fall, wait through the winter, and see them bloom in the spring.
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Even though it is summer Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has a injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well.
88) 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.
89) Windfall
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Thirteen-year-old Liza proposes a means to create positive outlets to deal with the struggles in her life, but the new principal at school denies her request. When Liza takes matters into her own hands, things heat up.
90) Pumpkin spice
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Kaya, Anna, and Reed hope their pumpkin, Herbert, will take home first prize at the Windy City Pumpkin Fest, but when Herbert suddenly disappears, the friends must catch the thief in time for the festival.
95) Planting peanuts
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Ana & Andrew get to start a backyard garden! They go along to the nursery to pick up peanut seedlings. While they're planting, Mama and Papa tell them about one of the first African American botanists, George Washington Carver.
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Emily Adams learns that the empty dirt lot in her town used to be a beautiful garden, and when it is about to be paved to make space for a new building, Emily and her three friends--Maddie, Bella, and Sam--decide to save the old lot by creating a new garden in it. Now they just have to convince their friends, family, neighbors, and above all the mayor.