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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Little Mary is an orphan, come from India to her relatives in England. Her cousin Colin is a sickly lad, living in the same large cold house that Mary has been sent to. Both children are self-centered and lonely, unhappy in different ways. It is only when Mary finds a rusty old key that opens the long-hidden garden that the two learn to find love and happiness. In the mystery and beauty of nature and living things, Mary and Colin overcome their problems...
2) In my garden
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl describes what she loves most in her garden during each season.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four snappy poems revolve around the growing season. All are short; most are no more than four lines. Some are punny̜Would You Carrot All to Dance? Others are riddles, such as A Riddle Picnic. Papa ate the root/and tossed the leaves./Mama ate the leaves/and said 'Mines best!/Brother ate the stem/and found no seeds./Sister ate the seeds/and tossed the rest.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt."--
Author
Publisher
National Trust
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The cottage garden's abundant, informal style is rooted in Victorian dreams of a perfect country life, but has found new expressions from the Arts and Crafts movement to the present day. This book showcases many cottage gardens both famous and obscure, including writer Thomas Hardy's cottage in Dorset; the flower-filled cottage garden created at Sissinghurst, Kent, by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson; Beatrix Potter's Cumbrian home, Hill Top,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 680L
Language
English
Description
With fantastic images and simple text, books in this series serve as a perfect introduction to different habitats and show how a wide variety of animals and plants are beautifully adapted to live there. In What Can Live in a Garden?, readers learn about garden habitats conditions, microhabitats, and the ingenious ways plants and animals are designed to live in gardens.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Things really go to seed in the newest novel in the New York Times bestselling Book Retreat mysteries...
There is a hidden garden bordering the grounds of Jane Steward’s book-themed resort—a garden filled with beautiful but deadly plants such as mandrake and nightshade. Tucked away behind ivy-covered walls and accessible only through a single locked door, as described in the pages of Frances Hodges Burnett's...
There is a hidden garden bordering the grounds of Jane Steward’s book-themed resort—a garden filled with beautiful but deadly plants such as mandrake and nightshade. Tucked away behind ivy-covered walls and accessible only through a single locked door, as described in the pages of Frances Hodges Burnett's...
Author
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Brings together hundreds of fresh ideas and unique solutions for making the most of all garden outdoor spaces. This book provides design options for patios and decks, structures like arbours and sheds, beds, borders and other landscaping, as well as dining and entertaining areas.
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Updated and expanded edition.
Language
English
Description
The original publication of “Planting the Natural Garden” ushered in a revolution in landscape design: the New Perennial Movement. Spearheaded by internationally renowned designer Piet Oudolf, and incisively articulated by the late plantsman and designer Henk Gerritsen, it transformed private and public spaces with its emotionally resonant, naturalistic use of hardy perennials and grasses.
Now this classic has been expanded and updated to include...
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