Display: How Does Your Garden Grow?

By Melissa Assaly

The story of how a mother and child come to appreciate the produce they grow as they plant their very own family garden. Tips about living green and gardening as a family are also included.

We Are the Gardeners

By Joanna Gaines

The Gaines family shares their experiences with their own family garden. The struggles, the triumphs, and the lessons that they have learned.

Dig In!:12 Easy Gardening Projects Using Kitchen Scraps

By Kari A. Cornell

These step-by-step instructions will help you to be able to grow your own garden from kitchen scraps. Learn how to save leftovers and environother food items to reuse them to help your garden grow!

Errol's Garden

By Gillian Hibbs

Errol lives in a space where he doesn't have room to garden even though he loves gardening. He searches for a space outside to grow things and discovers a solution. Errol's garden unites the diverse community in a positive way.

In My Garden

By Charlotte Zolotow

During each season a little girl describes what she loves most about her garden.

Plant, Sow, Make & Grow

By Esther Coombs

With this low-stress approach to gardening, younger gardeners will enjoy learning how to manage their own garden. There are many tips and tricks to help you get started, ways to use recycled materials to make gardening tools, and other fun craft ideas.

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Dude, That's Rude! (Get Some Manners) by Pamela Espeland & Elizabeth Verdick

If there's one book today's kids need to read, it is Dude, That's Rude! (Get Some Manners) . The authors provide a fun format for teaching etiquette to children. They discuss proper behavior at home, at school, at other people's homes and in public places. The information is completely up-to-date with cellphone manners and netiquette included. Fun, cartoony illustrations are on practically every page giving the book great visual appeal. This book is perfect for boys and girls in the fourth grade or older. WARNING: Bodily functions are discussed.

Faces of the Moon by Bob Crelin

Faces of the Moon by Bob Crelin Illustrated by Leslie Evans Charlesburg; 2009; unpaged Faces of the Moon is a short nonfiction book that describes the different phases of the moon and why the moon appears like it does on certain nights. This book is short and sweet so even the youngest of moon lovers will enjoy it. The layout is simplistic and easy to follow. I don’t know much about the moon so I found it very interesting.

Review: The Factory

The Factory By Catherine Egan New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2025. Fiction. 306 pages. Thirteen-year-old Asher Doyle has been invited to join the Factory, a secretive research facility in the desert which ostensibly extracts renewable energy from the electromagnetic fields of its young recruits. But Asher soon realizes something sinister is going on. Kids are getting sick. The adults who run the Factory seem to be keeping secrets. And the extraction process is not only painful and exhausting, but existentially troubling. Asher makes a handful of new friends who help him with an investigation that turns into a resistance, which turns into...a cliffhanger! The Factory is a page-turning sci-fi with multidimensional characters, an intriguing plot, and refreshingly straight-forward writing. Egan weaves in detail about climate crises and social unrest, making the story's dystopian setting feel rich and plausible. With its sophisticated themes and accessible storytelling, I would recomm...

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