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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Tweens
Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for ages 8 - 12
Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for ages 8 - 12
Description
"Young Mary Lennox is left an orphan when her parents die of illness while living abroad. In their absence, Mary is sent to stay under the care of her Uncle in Yorkshire, England. It's there in Misselthwaite Manor that she meets two young boys--a servant named Dickon and her cousin Colin, who lives locked away in the manor due to a disability that leaves him bound in a wheelchair. The trio discover a secret garden hidden in the manor grounds and...
2) City green
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[1994]
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English
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Marcy and Miss Rosa start a campaign to clean up an empty lot and turn it into a community garden.
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"While staying with his aunt Mimi in a drab city neighborhood, Vincent is asked to get rid of a box of 'dirt balls'. Vincent and Toma, a boy who lives nearby, throw them into the empty dirt lot across the street. Soon, new shoots sprout up"--Provided by publisher.
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2022.
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English
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Earth Day - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Plant Wildflowers Grant Titles
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Plant Wildflowers Grant Titles
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"Mimi was a perfectly ordinary girl who lived a perfectly ordinary life. She didn't want many things. But there was one thing she wanted more than anything else... to see fairies in her garden. Could she ever make a garden perfect enough that they would come?" -- Back cover.
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"But Mother is always dying," is Gillian Ormsby's sarcastic response when her younger, favored sister tells her that she has to go take care of their hypochondriac mother. Much against her will, since she and her mother never have gotten along, Gillian arrives in California to find the garden and yard dead, the blinds all drawn, and her mother indeed in bed - waiting to die. But when Gillian talks with the doctor, he assures her there's no medical...
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[2016]
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English
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"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"--
11) Grandpa Green
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A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
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Jewish American Heritage - Children
National Hobby Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
National Hobby Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
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When elderly Mr. Tempkin's plan to thwart the squirrels that have been raiding his birdfeeder goes awry, his neighbor Marky learns how special a friendship can be.
16) We're rabbits!
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[2004]
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English
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Rabbits invade a young gardener's garden in the hopes of finding carrots to eat.
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