Green Thumbs-Up! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781481439046)

To make a new city feel like home, Anna gets involved with a community garden--and cultivates new friendships as well as flowers and vegetables--in the first book in the Friendship Garden series.

It may be the orange and red season of fall, but eight-year-old Anna Fincher feels nothing but gray. She and her family have just moved to Chicago for her mom's new job. Not only does Anna miss her tiny hometown and her true-blue best friends, but she misses her garden. Over the summer she and her friends had been growing big red tomatoes, bright green beans, and pink raspberries on a small plot of land in Anna's backyard.

Now, just when it's fall harvest time back home, Anna is stuck in a boring apartment with no yard, and starting a brand-new school with kids who are anything but friendly. Until one day Anna makes an amazing discovery: a little community garden right in the middle of the city. And a small idea begins to take root in a big way.

What if a bunch of kids took over a neglected, forgotten little garden plot? Could they make anything bloom--even friendship?

Author: Jenny Meyerhoff
ISBN-10: 1481439049
ISBN-13: 9781481439046
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2015
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.14w x 0.49d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.2
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 179234 / Green Thumbs-Up!


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 05/01/2015 pg. 96
Publishers Weekly 06/15/2015
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2015 pg. 120
Booklist 07/01/2015 pg. 72