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Original Title:	Seedfolks
ISBN:	0064472078 (ISBN13: 9780064472074)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Jane Addams Children's Book Award Nominee for Older Children (1998), Phoenix Award (Children's Literature Association) Nominee (2017)

Seedfolks

Paul Fleischman

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 13044 Users | 2108 Reviews

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Title	:	Seedfolks
Author	:	Paul Fleischman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	December 14th 2004 by HarperTeen (first published April 11th 1997)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Cultural

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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. 

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.

Seedfolks 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.

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Ratings: 3.73 From 13044 Users | 2108 Reviews

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I read this charming book, written for tweens I'm guessing, in less than an hour today. I found a copy lying on one of the tables at the Literacy Center where I tutor and started leafing through it while one of my students was completing some exercises in a workbook. After the lesson I stayed behind and read the entire book. A vacant lot in a rundown neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, is slowly transformed from a trash dump into a community garden when people start clearing sections of it to plant

I think that Seedfolks would be a good book to use in a middle grades classroom. It would be an ideal book to use in my own opinion in a class that has multiple mixed races and different languages. The book shows how despite not knowing anything about a particular person you can get to know them. The book starts with no one speaking to each other and all the watchers assuming that the little girl who started the garden was hiding drugs, money or a gun. As the book goes on though the groups of

When I saw the garden for the first time, so green among the dark brick buildings, I thought back to my parents' Persian rug. It showed climbing vines, rivers and waterfalls, grapes, flowers, singing birds, everything a desert dweller might dream of. The garden's green was as soothing to the eye as the deep blue of that rug. I'm aware of color - I manage a fabric store. But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, was not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes see our neighbors. To honor her

Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman is a short novel about a vacant lot which connected a community. I wouldnt recommend that story to other readers. The story focused on new characters in separated chapters. The author didnt repeat the previous characters. There is also no ending about how the community was connected.First of all, the story has many different characters with different cultures and they all have a separate story with their own reasons to start planting something in the vacant lot. For

I didn't like this book. We had to read it for school, and I read ahead (sorry!) There was detail, but only in certain areas. The chapters were too short, and they introduced a new character in every chapter, with not much detail about the character. I didn't like the format of the story, and there are hardly any good words in this. The reading level of this is about 5th-6th grade, but I read at a much higher level than this, so it was easy for me to read. I really didn't like this book.

Have you ever read a book you didn't like? Well Im going to tell you why I didn't like Seedfolks. This book is realistic/multicultural fiction. There are people from all across the world in it. I think that something unique about Seedfolks is that each chapter switches from different character's points of view. The author, Paul Fleischman is from Santa Monica and now lives in Aroma. He has a history of gardening and there are some good gardening facts in the book. Seedfolks is about a community

heartwarming story but kinda racist? lmao. I won't be writing a full review for this.