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Series
Language
English
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Description
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can talk to animals. Then one day, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all -- a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been forgotten for years and years. With the help of two unexpected companions,...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2009, c1999
Edition
Special anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all. Includes a recipe.
3) My garden
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After noticing that a visiting hummingbird likes her pink petunias, Annie and her rabbit Snowball, accompanied by Henry and his dog Mudge, fill the garden with pink objects to attract more hummingbirds.
Author
Series
Ladies of Lantern Street volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moving to a country cottage where she seeks refuge in a paranormally charged garden, Evangeline Ames is rescued from a would-be assassin by the garden's owner, Lucas Sebastian, who taps Evangeline's detective skills to solve a buried-treasure mystery and stop a common enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2011, c2010
Edition
1st Simon Spotlight ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Olivia's teacher gives Olivia a "surprise" plant seed envelope, she takes care of the seed in her garden, excited to discover what kind of plant she will grow.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First World War. As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage....
Author
Series
Kitty (Paula Harrison) volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 118 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Kitty and her feline friends discover a secret roof garden and learn all about plants and gardening.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith. But as Emma dives deeper into the gardens' past, she begins to uncover secrets that have long lain hidden. 1907: A talented artist with a growing reputation for her ambitious work, Venetia Smith...
13) Garden spells
Author
Series
Waverley family novels volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Bantam trade paperback edition
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sisters Claire and Sydney are the last of their curious family, a family that have always had peculiar gifts that make them outsiders in their small North Carolina town. When Sydney leaves, then later returns home with a young daughter the sisters must deal with their common legacy and each other
14) Project Fluffy
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chuck Wood is the most popular kid in school, and Louie Ratso can't believe that Chuck has asked him for help! Chuck likes Louie's friend Fluffy Rabbitski, and he wants Louie to help him get Fluffy to notice him. As for Ralphie Ratso, he can't believe that his brother wants to spend all his time with Chuck instead of with him. Meanwhile, despite Louie and Chuck's attempts to get Fluffy's attention, she has eyes for only one thing: her garden. But...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, and the garden, laden with orange blossom, grows wild. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Emma is London's leading perfumier, but her blessed life has taken a difficult turn. Emma's free-spirited mother, Liberty, who taught her the art of fragrance making,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"From the author of the critically acclaimed The Illness Lesson ("astoundingly original"--NYTBR), comes a a page-turning and psychologically penetrating tale about the rules that govern women's bodies and lives. In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated house-cum-hospital in the Berkshires, run by a husband-and-wife...
17) Nightshade
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1851. Restless and bored after a long hot summer, apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhart decides to redesign her physic garden. But plans are thrown into confusion when a man's skeleton is unearthed from beneath the deadly nightshade, a smaller, child-like skeleton curled at its feet. The body bears evidence of knife wounds to its ribs and arms, and is accompanied by a collection of macabre objects: a brass bowl, a curious coin-like token,...
18) The rough patch
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Farmer Evan and his dog do everything together and, especially, in the garden but when his dog passes away Evan lets his garden fill with weeds until a pumpkin vine brings new hope.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The last thing they expect to come across is a giant, abandoned corn maze. But with a whole day of playing hooky unspooling before them, they make their second mistake. Or perhaps their third? Maybe even their fourth. Because Sadie and Logan have definitely entered this maze before. And again before that. They quickly realize they've not only entered this maze before, they've died in it too. A lot.."--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
335 p.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Sarah Addison Allen, Aimee Bender, and Alice Hoffman, The Night Garden is a luminous novel of love, forgiveness, and the possibilities that arise when you open your heart. Nestled in the bucolic town of Green Valley in upstate New York, the Pennywort farm appears ordinary, yet at its center lies something remarkable: a wild maze of colorful gardens that reaches beyond the imagination. Local legend says that a visitor can gain answers...
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