The Garden of Eve
Evie reluctantly moves with her widowed father to Beaumont, New York, where he has bought an apple orchard, dismissing rumors that the town is cursed and the trees haven't borne fruit in decades. Evie doesn't believe in things like curses and fairy tales anymore--if fairy tales were real, her mom...
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Evie reluctantly moves with her widowed father to Beaumont, New York, where he has bought an apple orchard, dismissing rumors that the town is cursed and the trees haven't borne fruit in decades. Evie doesn't believe in things like curses and fairy tales anymore--if fairy tales were real, her mom would still be alive. But odd things happen in Beaumont. Evie meets a boy who claims to be dead and receives a mysterious seed as an eleventh-birthday gift. Once planted, the seed grows into a tree overnight, but only Evie and the dead boy can see it--or go where it leads.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780152066147 (0152066144)
Publish date: April 6th 2009
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 234
Edition language: English
Hi, ich bin Evie und werde in wenigen Tagen 11. Aber mir ist das egal. Denn meine Mom ist vor kurzem gestorben und anstatt wir zu Hause bleiben, da wo alles an Mama erinnert, zieht mein Vater weg, und ich muss natürlich mit. Er meint, das ist das Beste für uns. Er müsse das jetzt um bedingt machen u...
Garden variety message-drive fantasy for younger readers, of the sort in which the fantasy elements are merely tools or metaphors for conveying some Wisdom to Grow On about valuing your family (they love you! even if they don't show it and in fact totally neglect you!), living in the real world, not...
The next time I read this book, I want it to be on a cold, late-fall night. This book sucked me into its atmosphere like few others have managed to, with its shivering cold and withering dead trees. This is a modern day fairy tale if there ever was one, and I mean that in the best way possible; it d...
I picked this book up on a whim. I tend to lean more toward the fairies and unicorns end of the childrens fiction spectrum, so something this dark usually doesn't appeal to my sensibilties. But something about this book called to me. I am glad I listened.The characters are interesting and come off a...
I feel like a lot of people are judging this book a bit too harshly. It's cute. If I was in 4th grade when I read this, I would have totally loved it, right up there with the Children of Green Knowe. It's probably pre-YA, but nothing wrong with that.
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