The Gardener (Sunburst Books)
 

The Gardener (Sunburst Books)

by Sarah Stewart

By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The LibraryLydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace... (read more)

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This one struck a chord (or a root?) deep inside. That urge to grow things is unsuppressable and this book gets it.

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