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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Mary is a lonely orphaned girl sent to a Yorkshire mansion at the edge of a vast lonely moor. At first, she is frightened by this gloomy place until she meets a local boy, Dickon, who's earned the trust of the moor's wild animals; the invalid Colin, an unhappy boy terrified of life; and a mysterious, abandoned garden.
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English
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Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson is returning to her hometown of Colville, Washington, to live with her mother, a recent widow who is having difficulties living alone. Returning to parents' house, her childhood girlfriends, and the garden she always loved, Susannah begins to regret some decisions she made in the past, including leaving her boyfriend, Jake, when she went abroad to go to school.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From the author of The Light Over London and the "gripping, moving" (Kelly Rimmer) The Whispers of War comes a poignant and heartwrenching tale of five women in three eras, whose lives are tied together by one very special garden"--
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English
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Fiona Knox lost her fiancé and her flower shopbut when she flies to Scotland to inherit her godfathers cottage and possibly magical walled garden, she may lose her life as well when shes swept into a murder investigation. Florist Fiona Knoxs life isnt smelling so sweet these days. Her fiancé left her for their cake decorator. Then, her flower shop wilted after a chain florist opened next door. So when her godfather, Ian MacCallister, leaves her...
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"Fiona Knox thought she was pulling her life back together when she inherited her godfather's cottage in Duncreigan, Scotland--complete with a magical walled garden. But the erstwhile Tennessee flower shop owner promptly found herself puddle boot-deep in danger when she found a dead body among the glimmering blossoms. One police investigation later (made a trifle less unpleasant by the presence of handsome Chief Inspector Neil Craig), and Fiona's...
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English
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"Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died...
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Series
Sparrow sisters volume 2
Language
English
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Sorrel Sparrow, an American nursery owner with a rare gift with plants, jumps at the chance to help revive a run-down Shakespearean garden on a country estate in England. The ancestral home of Sir Graham Kirkwood and his wife, Stella, the Kirkwood Hall garden exudes a sense of heartbreak, betrayal and enchantment. As Sorrel becomes intrigued with the house's haunting history-- and the owner's brother-in-law-- she slowly unravels the ancient garden's...
10) Mums and mayhem
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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When Fiona finds McFee, a famous fiddler starring in the homecoming concert, dead in his trailer during a break in the concert, her Scottish father becomes a suspect and Fiona is determined to find the culprit and clear her father, even though her boyfriend, Chief Inspector Neil Craig, disapproves, but to make matters worse, the magical garden she inherited from her grandfather has withered, and it is up to Fiona to make it bloom again.
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English
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London, 1916. England is at war. Desperate to help in whatever way they can, Ivy and Louisa enlist as gardeners at Kew, the Royal Botanic Gardens, taking on the jobs of the men who have gone to fight. Under their care, the gardens begin to flourish and become a safe haven for those seeking solace--but not everyone wants women working at Kew. he pair begin to face challenges on the home front. When a tragedy overseas affects the people closest to them,...
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Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After noticing that a visiting hummingbird likes her pink petunias, Annie and her rabbit Snowball, accompanied by Henry and his dog Mudge, fill the garden with pink objects to attract more hummingbirds.
13) The carrot seed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone tells a small boy that the carrot seed he has planted will never grow, but his patience is rewarded. Despite everyone's dire predictions, a little boy has faith in the carrot seed he plants.
14) My garden
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
16) I have a garden
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Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Relates the wonderful things that can be found in a garden.
18) Harvest
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl and her mother spend the day gathering vegetables, fruit, and herbs from their garden.
20) Fairy house
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anticipating the arrival of flower-tending fairies in the springtime, Pinkalicious tours her family's garden, prepares a cozy fairy-sized house, and wonders if she will be able to see her tiny visitors.
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