Cranston Public Library

Classic fiction. On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle Archibald's estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. With the help of Dickon Sowerby, a young local boy who can charm animals, Mary cultivates the garden, an experiences that both improves her health and raises her spirits. Ultimately, the secret garden proves beneficial not only to to Mary, but to her sickly...

Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this visually magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends.

After their mother's death, Olivia and Nellie go to live with their great aunt, where they slowly bring her overgrown and weedy old garden back to life, enabling them to adjust to a new life as well.

"A little girl's creativity, dedication, and imagination turn a vacant city lot into a beautiful community garden." --

Youngsters explore the sights, smells, sensations, and tastes of growing their own food in a community garden. Story based on the Children's Garden in Seattle.

"Students create a vegetable garden on their school's rooftop." --

In this creative non-fiction story, Sonia and her friends plant a garden, and each one contributes in his or her own special way, in a book that celebrates the many differences among humans. In this warm and inclusive story by U.S. Supreme Justice Sonia Sotomayor, inspired by her own childhood diagnosis of diabetes, readers join along as differently abled kids use their strengths to work together and learn about each other.

A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.

When a pest eats all the vegetables in the garden, Duck comes up with a plan to stop whatever is feasting on his crops.

"A whimsical book about a girl who gets swept away by the wind while preparing for a tea party. She flies away on a lively little adventure, before returning to her party with the realization that an imperfect but adventuresome tea party might be more fun after all."--