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GPLD 2024 Fall Favorites: Picture Books/Kids Nonfiction
Guest Reader K-2 Spring 2025
How Does Your Garden Grow?
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Guest Reader K-2 Spring 2025
How Does Your Garden Grow?
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Millie Fleur La Fae is new in Garden Glen, and she plans to plant her garden of strange and sometimes dangerous plants, but the town garden club does not approve of her and wants to tear it down.
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Diversity Equity and Inclusion - Youth
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage Month (WPLD)
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage Month (WPLD)
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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.
7) Prunella
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GPLD 2024 Fall Favorites: Picture Books/Kids Nonfiction
How Does Your Garden Grow?
National Garden Month
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
National Garden Month
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Born with a purple thumb instead of a green one like her parents, Prunella cultivates a poisonous garden to keep people away until a curious weed of a different sort pops up, forcing her to decide between uprooting this tentative new friendship or allowing it to blossom.
8) 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.
9) In my garden
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A young girl describes what she loves most in her garden during each season.
10) Grandpa Green
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A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
11) My baba's garden
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A Garden of Stories
Children's Staff Picks 9/2025
Grandparents for Kids
OBD Read, Renew, Repeat - Summer 2024 YOUTH
Children's Staff Picks 9/2025
Grandparents for Kids
OBD Read, Renew, Repeat - Summer 2024 YOUTH
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A story about the special relationship between a child and his grandmother and the time they spend looking for worms for the garden.
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OBD Plant a Seed: Summer Reading 2026 - YOUTH
Unity in My Community - ROD Children's
Youth - EPPL Seed Library
Unity in My Community - ROD Children's
Youth - EPPL Seed Library
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Armed with seeds and a shovel, Biscuit and the little girl visit the community garden where they plant flowers with new friends.
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""A grandmother explores her special garden with her granddaughters. Wonder grows everywhere but Grandmother especially loves to show it in her story garden. She invites her granddaughters to join her there in a sweet meditation on the treasures she's brought to that magical place--the rocks, the shells, the crystals, the meteorites : how they came to be, how they were formed, how they each have a story to tell"--Provided by publisher.
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Farms and Gardens
Greenhouse Storytime
Plant a Seed: Summer Reading 2026, Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Toddlers)
Greenhouse Storytime
Plant a Seed: Summer Reading 2026, Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Toddlers)
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In the city an abandoned lot squeezed between two buildings becomes a community garden.
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Sizzling Summer Reads - ROD Children's
Summer Reads for Little Kids
Unity in My Community - ROD Children's
Summer Reads for Little Kids
Unity in My Community - ROD Children's
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"When Vincent is sent to his aunt Mimi's city apartment for the summer, he's surrounded by more concrete than nature. Things are looking gray. But before long, Vincent meets Toma, and the boys bond while throwing some strange dirt balls into an empty lot. All summer long, they toss and launch, throw and catch. Little do they know, though, just as their friendship is growing, something is also blooming in the empty lot ÌÆA celebration of the joy...
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Youth)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month for Kids
Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month for Kids
Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
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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.
18) 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...
19) The rough patch
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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.
20) In the garden
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"Learn about all the things in George's garden in this fun story featuring carefully leveled text and colorful illustrations appropriate for emergent readers"-- Provided by publisher.










