"Up in the garden, the world is full of green-- leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves ... and down in the dirt."--

Overview: While teaching upper- and lowercase letters to preschoolers, Ehlert introduces fruits and vegetables from around the world. A glossary at the end provides interesting facts about each food. An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.

Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.

Best friends and Mouse Scouts Violet and Tigerlily can't wait to start earning their merit badges. But their troop leader, Miss Poppy, is one strict rodent. And earning their Sow It and Grow It badge is hard work. Especially when unwanted visitors invade their plants. Will the troop drive the pests from the garden? and will they ever get Miss Poppy to smile?

"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--

"What do plants eat? Why do some plants have flowers and others don't? And what's the tallest plant out there?"--Amazon.com.

The story of former basketball star and current urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, whose vision of gardening from abandoned urban sites led to a grassroots feeding craze.

"An educational picture book about the life cycle of a sunflower"--

Seven-year-old Shaquille O'Neal, a talented basketball and video game player, learns to share the spotlight with his cousin Barry when the youngsters work together to earn money by watering plants.