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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her. Between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around...
2) My garden
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
10) Seedfolks
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed. .
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
"Ware can’t wait to spend summer 'off in his own world'—dreaming of knights in the Middle Ages and generally being left alone. But then his parents sign him up for dreaded Rec camp, where he must endure Meaningful Social Interaction and whatever activities so-called 'normal' kids do. On his first day Ware meets Jolene, a tough, secretive girl planting a garden in the rubble of an abandoned church next to the camp. Soon he starts skipping Rec,...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
In this queer reimaging of The secret garden, fifteen-year-old orphan Mary sets off to live in the Georgian Bay wilds where she discovers family secrets both wonderful and horrifying.
15) The humming room
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twelve-year-old orphan Roo Fanshaw is sent to live with an uncle she never knew in a largely uninhabited mansion on Cough Rock Island and discovers a wild river boy, an invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a hidden garden.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Lily has a talent for making things grow. So when she finds a mysterious seed during a walk in the forest, she plants it right away. The ugly seedling that comes up is a surprise, but Lily treasures all plants and has an extra-special feeling about this one. It dosn't matter to her that it's really ugly ... and that it smells bad ... and that it makes everyone in Pixie Hollow sneeze! But it matters to all the other fairies. They don't like the mysterious...
19) Miss Rumphius
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The dead-pan narration in this debut picture book delivers a perfect child-like vision with humor and panache, depicted in luminous detail. A little boy shows what happens when he drops larger and larger objects, both in terms of size and imagination, down a mysterious hole that grows throughout the year in his garden. But what happens in December?