

Anna is worried about making friends, but when she is assigned to write a persuasive speech with Kaya and Reed, she finally has people to see after school. Her mother is a very busy chef in a restaurant, and her father is adjusting to being an at-home dad. moreĮ ARC from Edelweiss Above the Treeline Anna's family has moved from suburban New York to the city of Chicago. What if a bunch of kids took over a neglected, forgotten little garden plot? Could they make anything bloom-even friendship?.

And a small idea begins to take root in a big way. Until one day Anna makes an amazing discovery: a little community garden right in the middle of the city. 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. 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.

Not only does Anna miss her tiny hometown and her true-blue best friends, but she misses her garden. She and her family have just moved to Chicago for her mom’s new job. It may be the orange and red season of fall, but eight-year-old Anna Fincher feels nothing but gray. Not only doe 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. 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.
