Grow: A Novel in Verse - Juanita Havill - Bücher - Peachtree Pub Ltd (J) - 9781561455751 - 5. April 2011
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Grow: A Novel in Verse

Juanita Havill

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Grow: A Novel in Verse

Everything about Berneetha is big?her mouth, her size, and especially her dreams. And when Berneetha decides to create a community garden on a vacant lot, twelve-year-old Kate Sibley just has to help make that dream a reality. At first the neighbors think Kate and Berneetha are crazy, but slowly they begin to come around. ?Graffiti gangster? Harlan turns out to be pretty good with a rented tiller. Dr. Chitra Arockiasamy is willing to be in charge of tomatoes. Hank Glover would like to grow corn. And unsmiling Jacob Wasserman somehow manages to get some manure. Slowly, a community begins to grow, just as the garden does.

But just as the garden and Kate are both beginning to bloom, a sign goes up; a parking garage will be built on the lot. Can Kate and Berneetha and their friends keep the garden and the dream alive?

Award-winning author Juanita Havill?s story of a community garden in an urban neighborhood and the mismatched people who carefully tend it is told through the eyes of an impressionable girl in a series of richly detailed prose poems. The result is an affecting, lasting portrait of community life and the power of shared commitment and hope.

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 5. April 2011
ISBN13 9781561455751
Verlag Peachtree Pub Ltd (J)
Seitenanzahl 159
Maße 137 × 191 × 13 mm   ·   176 g
Sprache Englisch  
Mitwirkende Stansislawa Kodman

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