num_pages: 2
description: A vacant lot, rat-infested, and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant her precious bean seeds. Suddenly, the soil holds promise: to Curtis, who believes he can win back Lateesha's heart with a harvest of tomatoes; to Virgil's dad, who sees a fortune to be made from growing lettuce; and even to Maricela, sixteen and pregnant, wishing she were dead. Thirteen very different voices--old, young, Haitian, Hispanic, tough, haunted, and hopeful tell one amazing story about a garden that transforms a neighborhood.
language: English
title: Seedfolks
titlecomplete: Seedfolks
genres: Cultural, Childrens, Short Stories, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Novels, School, Fiction, Gardening, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 15650
places: Cleveland, Ohio
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award
category: Older Children, awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: Phoenix Award (Children's Literature Association)
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks