After their mother's death, Olivia and Nellie go to live with their great aunt, where they slowly bring her overgrown and weedy old garden back to life, enabling them to adjust to a new life as well.
In this collection of poems and paintings, the author invites the readers to join her as she watches a barred owl silently sailing through the sky, and turns a garbage-strewn lot into a magical city garden.
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.
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.
Twelve-year-old Roo Fanshaw, who has a talent for hiding, is sent to live with her estranged uncle in his on Cough Rock Island, where she discovers the secrets of the largely uninhabited house and its hidden garden.
As a Father's Day gift to the twins' Dad, Bradley, Brian, and their cousins Lucy and Nate try to identify and stop whatever creature is biting fruits and vegetables in the garden.
