Pumpkin Spice Up Your Life: A Wish Novel: A Wish Novel

Malibu Carmie

If You Only Knew

A la Carte

Swan Boy

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Saving Sky

This verse novel about the creation of a community garden reveals the extraordinary magic that occurs when ordinary people work together.Everything about Berneetha is big-especially her dreams. And when Berneetha decides to create a 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 a community begins to grow, much like the plants do.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 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.

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