by Paul Fleischman
Set in Cleveland, Ohio, a vacant, trashed lot is slowly transformed into a community garden. It starts with one young girl, Kim, planting lima beans to remember her dead father. Then an old Romanian lady, Ana, snooping from her apartment window with binoculars, discovers her little secret and decide...
To me, this book is simple and beautiful.It's written in stereotypes and while that could have gone awry, it didn't. I feel as though a hatred of stereotypes has been drilled into me and I sometimes forget they exist for a reason. Several reasons. Sometimes not good reasons but sometimes, they illus...
2/13/12 ** Absolutely fabulous. I've read this many times, but not for at least 5 years. Every time I read it, I see more layers. Most recently, I read it aloud to my fourth graders - amazed by their insight and empathy, even with just one reading.
This was a book required for my cross lit class in school.Very amazing and touching, but I wish it had been longer.
Seedfolks is a beautifully written and deeply philosophical story. It tells the tale of a community that has given up hope, only to be brought together by a garden. When Kim plants six lima beans in an abandoned lot, she doesn’t realize that she is setting in motion a project that will change her ne...
one of those cool books w/a bunch of different stories that all connect at the end. pretty good.
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