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"After Mary Lennox's parents pass away, she is sent to a large, isolated house in Yorkshire to live with an uncle she has never met. Ill-tempered, obstinate Mary dislikes her new home, but when she finds the key to a locked garden she realises there are fascinating secrets waiting to be uncovered at Misselthwaite Manor. With the help of new friends, Mary resolves to bring the neglected garden back to life - and her own transformation begins. This...
2) Seedfolks
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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.
A vacant lot, rat-infested and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden, especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant...
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Sonia and her friends plant a garden, and each one contributes in his or her own special way, in a book that celebrates the many differences among humans.
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"Difficult child Maria Latif arrives in Long Island from Pakistan to live with the strange Clayborne family where she discovers an off-limits garden that becomes a place where she finally feels at home"--
Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never...
6) My garden
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After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
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"An old stone tower on Rainspell Island seems to be filled with magic, but best friends Kirsty and Rachel can't get inside to search for Fern the Green Fairy, who has been sent away from Fairyland by the scheming Jack Frost. Can the girls and their new animal friends help reunite Fern with her fairy sisters?"--
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Disney fairies collection volume 2
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Vidia and the fairy crown: When Vidia, a disagreeable fairy, finds herself accused of stealing the Queen's tiara, she enlists the aid of a fellow sprite to help investigate and the two race against time to clear Vidia's name. Lily's pesky plant: Lily, a garden-talent fairy, finds an unusual seed in the forest, plants it in her garden, and hopes that she will not be forced to uproot the plant it produces.
13) The carrot seed
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A small boy ignores the naysayers in his family who say the carrot seed he planted will not grow, caring for it patiently and keeping faith.
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Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant's 100 plus children's books have garnered numerous honors, including the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. One day, Annie and Henry-together with their furry friends Snowball and Mudge-see a beautiful hummingbird. It's darting and hovering near Annie's flowers-especially the pink petunias. They love watching it each day. But they wonder how they can encourage their tiny visitor to return after the sweet-smelling blooms...
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"The tale of Peter Rabbit, who disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught."--
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Disney fairies collection volume 3
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Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon. Since cutting off her wings to save Never Land, Rani, a water-talent fairy, feels out of place with the fairies and wonders if she should live with the mermaids instead.
Fira and the full moon. Exhausted at the end of her busiest time of year, Fira, a light-talent fairy, must cope with an illness among the fireflies and train three rambunctious new fairies so that other Never Land fairies can do their work.
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Anne of Green Gables: Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Little women: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.
Secret garden: Orphaned, ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire...
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Young Lupe loves helping her mother with their salsa garden full of tomatoes, chile peppers, onions, garlic and cilantro. But one summer day, she sees that the biggest, juiciest tomatoes have disappeared! Who could have taken them?!? Two weeks later, she catches the culprit in the act! It's Antonio, the new boy at school. His family doesn't have much money and the tomatoes look so good. He offers his gold necklace from his grandmother in Mexico in...
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"Journey into Frances Hodgson Burnett's enchanting and charming tales in this collection of her beloved classics: Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden."--
Cedric Errol is a child living in poverty with his mother in New York City, when all of a sudden, his life is turned upside down. He learns that after the untimely deaths of several distant relatives, he is heir to an enormous estate in England, and has inherited the...