Seedfolks

<p><strong>ALA Best Book for Young Adults '' <em>School Library Journal </em>Best Book '' <em>Publishers Weekly</em> Best Book '' IRA/CBC Children''s Choice </strong><strong>'' </strong><strong>NCTE Notable Children''s Book in the Language Arts</strong></p><p>A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads.  </p><p>Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden''s founding and first year. The book''s short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country.</p><p><em>Seedfolks</em> has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway.</p><p>The book''s many tributaries''from the author''s immigrant grandfather to his adoption of two brothers from Mexico''are detailed in his forthcoming memoir<em>, No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer''s Road to Page One.</em></p><p><strong>"The size of this slim volume belies the profound message of hope it contains."  ''<em>Christian Science Monitor</em></strong></p><p><strong>And don''t miss <em>Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices</em>, the Newbery Medal-winning poetry collection!</strong></p>