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Loading... The Gardener (original 1997; edition 2007)by Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator)
Work InformationThe Gardener by Sarah Stewart (1997)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An epistolary picture book! It's a really charming story of a girl who goes to live in the city during the Great Depression. The letters she writes home tell the story of her attempts to make her stern uncle smile by growing flowers. ( ) Set in 1935-1936 and told in letters from a girl - first to her Uncle Jim in the city, then back home to Mama, Papa, and Grandma in the country - The Gardener is the story of a girl who travels to live with her uncle in the city during the Great Depression. She helps in his bakery, makes friends with others in the apartment building, and grows a secret garden on the roof with packets of seeds her grandma sends. no reviews | add a review
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A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her. No library descriptions found. |
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