To make a new city feel like home, Anna gets involved with a community gardenand cultivates new friendships as well as flowers and vegetablesin 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 moms 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 Annas backyard. Now, just when its 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 bloomeven friendship?

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Friendship Garden .

This book is aimed at children at US 2nd grade-5th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 7-10 years.

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published in 2015 by Simon & Schuster .

Jenny Meyerhoff is author of the Barftastic Life of Louie Burger series, as well as the books Sami's Sleepaway Summer , Third Grade Baby , and Queen of Secrets . She is also the proud planter of her very own vegetable garden. Jenny grows string beans, broccoli, and spinach, but she has never picked a purple pepper. When she's not busy writing, she likes to hang out with her husband and three children playing Scrabble and watching movies.