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Best buds forever

2020
"Emily Adams learns that an empty dirt lot in town used to be a beautiful garden but now it's about to be paved over. So, she decides to take action. Emily and her three crafty friends, Maddie, Bella, and Sam decide the best way to save the old garden is to create a new one! But first they have to get the neighborhood on board. They research why gardens are great for the environment and the community, and they present the information to their friends, family, and neighbors. The last person they have to convince is the mayor himself. The friends know that no matter what happens, they'll be best buds forever . . . but will the mayor like their plan?"--Dust jacket flap.

My nana's garden

2021
"A little girl visits her grandmother in summer and winter, and together they explore the wonders of her garden. Until, one day, Nana isn't there anymore. But as winter gives way to spring, the girl learns that life goes on, and so does the memory of those we love"--.

Planting the wild garden

Looks at how wind and water, birds and animals, plants and people work together unaware to create a wild meadow garden.

Seedfolks

2008
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and, in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.

The remembering day

2015
Long ago in what would come to be called Mexico, as Mama Alma and her granddaughter, Bella, recall happy times while walking in the garden they have tended together since Bella was a baby, Mama Alma asks that after she is gone her family remember her on one special day each year. Includes facts about The Remembering Day, El dia de los muertos.

Me, Toma and the concrete garden

Vincent, staying with his aunt Mimi in the city for the summer, is bored until he meets Toma. The city is ugly, especially the empty dirt lot across the street. When Aunt Mimi asks the boys to help her get rid of a box of dirt balls, their friendship blooms as they throw the balls into the empty lot. That's not all that blooms, however; those balls were made of more than dirt. Soon shoots are popping up, flowers begin to bloom, and a community comes together to care for the new garden.

In the garden

2019
"This [text] uses a repetitive sentence pattern and . . . visual cues to help young readers explore [gardens]"--Amazon.
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The secret garden

2017
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers a sickly cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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Poets in the garden

an anthology of garden verse
1978

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