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Title:
The gardener
JLCTITLE245:
Sarah Stewart ; pictures by David Small.
Personal Author:
Stewart, Sarah, 1939- author.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [1997]
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9780374325176

9781435233287

9780590396295

9780312367497
General Note:
Illustrations on end papers.

"Designed by Lilian Rosenstreich"--Colophon.

Art techniques used : Ink line drawings with soft pastel coloring.
Abstract:
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
Reading Level:
Ages: 4-7.

Grades: 1-2.

Lexile: AD570L.

AD 570 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades K-4 3.9 0.5 Quiz 18674 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available, audio quiz available for beginning readers.

Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.9 0.5 18674.
Subject Term:
Children's literature.

Gardening -- Juvenile fiction.

Uncles -- Juvenile fiction.

Letters -- Juvenile fiction.

Girls -- Juvenile fiction.

Generosity -- Juvenile fiction.

Children's secrets -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Bakers -- Juvenile fiction.

Bakeries -- Juvenile fiction.

Postal service -- Juvenile fiction.

Unemployment -- Juvenile fiction.

City and town life -- Juvenile fiction.

Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.

Intergenerational relations -- Juvenile fiction.

Children's stories, American -- 20th century.

Uncles -- Fiction.

Letters -- Fiction.

Gardening -- Fiction.

JUVENILE FICTION -- Family -- General (see also headings under Social Themes)
Genre:
Picture books.

Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 1997.

Letters -- 1997.
Added Author:
Small, David, 1945-
Added Corporate Author:
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Chronological Term:
1929
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