Jenny Meyerhoff

Green Thumbs-up! Jenny Meyerhoff

Publisher Marketing: To make a new city feel like home, Anna gets involved with a community garden--and cultivates new friendships as well as flowers and vegetables--in the first book in the Friendship Garden series. It may be the orange and red season of fall, but eight-year-old Anna Fincher feels nothing but gray. She and her family have just moved to Chicago for her mom's new job. Not only does Anna miss her tiny hometown and her true-blue best friends, but she misses her garden. Over the summer she and her friends had been growing big red tomatoes, bright green beans, and pink raspberries on a small plot of land in Anna's backyard. Now, just when it's fall harvest time back home, Anna is stuck in a boring apartment with no yard, and starting a brand-new school with kids who are anything but friendly. Until one day Anna makes an amazing discovery: a little community garden right in the middle of the city. And a small idea begins to take root in a big way. What if a bunch of kids took over a neglected, forgotten little garden plot? Could they make anything bloom--even friendship? Review Citations:

School Library Journal 05/01/2015 pg. 96 (EAN 9781481439046, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 06/15/2015 (EAN 9781481439046, Paperback)

Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2015 pg. 120 (EAN 9781481439046, Paperback)

Booklist 07/01/2015 pg. 72 (EAN 9781481439046, Paperback)

School Library Journal 05/01/2015 pg. 96 (EAN 9781481439060, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2015 (EAN 9781481439060, Hardcover)

Booklist 07/01/2015 pg. 72 (EAN 9781481439060, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Meyerhoff, Jenny Jenny Meyerhoff is author of the Barftastic Life of Louie Burger series, as well as the books "Sami's Sleepaway Summer", "Third Grade Baby", and "Queen of Secrets". She is also the proud planter of her very own vegetable garden. Jenny grows string beans, broccoli, and spinach, but she has never picked a purple pepper. When she's not busy writing, she likes to hang out with her husband and three children playing Scrabble and watching movies. Contributor Bio:  Chatelain, Eva Eva Chatelain has had a passion for drawing since childhood. She grew up in a small French village before moving to Paris to study illustration. Visit her online at Tohu-Bohu-etc. Blogspot.com.