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Overview

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 — ...

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Overview

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.

Chosen as a state and citywide read in communities across the country:
Vermont Racine, WI Tampa, FL Newburgh, NY Boca Raton, FL

One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Fleischman's talent for writing stories from various points of view makes his works particularly appealing in audiobook form. Here, 13 different characters come alive via the distinct performances of a widely varied cast. When Kim, a young Vietnamese girl, plants some lima beans in a run-down vacant lot near her Cleveland, Ohio, apartment building, she has no idea that her actions will be a catalyst for reinvigorating the community. An elderly Romanian woman, a widower from Kentucky, an African-American boy and a Hispanic man are just a sampling of the other nearby residents who gradually emerge to follow Kim's unintentional lead and begin to help grow a new garden-and newly fulfilled lives-in the lot. Though not all the readings are of equal caliber (the portrayals of Ana and Wendell are particularly strong; a couple of the child performers lack polish), the range of voices and styles suggests a true community-certainly the author's intention. Ages 10-up. (Jan.)
Children's Literature
With Seedfolks, Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman has written a kind of modern-day folk tale about disconnected urban dwellers coming together one-by-one to join in a rather accidental community garden. It all starts with the simple act of a young immigrant girl honoring her dead father by planting a few lima beans in vacant lot in her downtrodden Cleveland neighborhood. She tells her story in chapter one and the chapters that follow are the voices of the other gardeners-spanning all ages and many nationalities-and how they came to be a part of the garden and the new community spirit that blossomed there. Seedfolks is just a slip of a book but a very interesting story well told.
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The ALAN Review
A vacant lot in an inner city neighborhood is transformed into a garden which grows a sense of community among the thirteen residents who labor there to create a place of beauty and renewal. Kim makes the first move as she plants beans in honor of her late father, a Vietnamese farmer. A neighbor, suspicious at first, watches Kim doggedly tend the withering crop. Other neighbors soon join in, each cultivating a section of the lot. Suddenly, a place of beauty stands amidst the grime of the city, a beacon of hope for residents who believed hope to be vanished from their lives. As he proved so ably in Bull Run, winner of the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction, Fleischman is adept at writing from many perspectives. The book's format lends itself perfectly to reader's theater and is also a good choice for reading aloud traditionally.
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Gr 4 UpA vacant lot in Cleveland, OH, is transformed into a garden when residents of the community plant seeds to fulfill personal needs. From the Korean girl who plants lima beans in memory of the father she never knew, to the elderly Guatemalan uncle who can't speak English, to the Haitian cab driver who plants baby lettuce to sell to fancy restaurants, the 13 voices telling their stories are like a packet of variegated seeds that when sown produce a beautiful, multicolored harvest. The device is similar to that of Fleischman's Bull Run (HarperCollins, 1993); one character's words sum up the cumulative effect: "Gardening...has suspense, tragedy, startling developmentsa soap opera growing out of the ground." Indeed it does. The vacant lot could be in any city as the message of diversity, people, and sensibility is universal, and beautifully cultivated by an author who has a green thumb with words.Julie Cummins, New York Public Library
School Library Journal
Gr 5 Up-Paul Fleischman creates a heartwarming story by weaving together a series of short vignettes about a vacant lot turned community garden. Set in a rundown section of Cleveland, Ohio, Fleischman's Seedfolks (HarperCollins, 1997) are a broad cross-section of ages, ethnic origins, and occupations. What unites all of these characters is the way they are changed by the simple act of growing vegetables or flowers. From the Vietnamese girl seeking a connection with the father who died before she was born. to the elderly wheelchair bound man who reconnects with the world, each character is unique. This audiobook capitalizes on the diversity of the characters by using a large cast of narrators drawn from around the world. Though listeners may find some narrators difficult to understand, the richness of the variety of voices adds authenticity to the recording. Cassettes include chapter listings, and the sound quality is good. Seedfolks is a nice addition to audio collections where Fleischman's work is popular, and worthy of inclusion in libraries serving ethnically diverse communities.-Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library. Rocky Hill, CT Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Using the multiple voices that made Bull Run (1995) so absorbing, Fleischman takes readers to a modern inner-city neighborhood and a different sort of battle, as bit by bit the handful of lima beans an immigrant child plants in an empty lot blossoms into a community garden, tended by a notably diverse group of local residents.

It's not an easy victory: Toughened by the experience of putting her children through public school, Leona spends several days relentlessly bulling her way into government offices to get the lot's trash hauled away; others address the lack of readily available water, as well as problems with vandals and midnight dumpers; and though decades of waging peace on a small scale have made Sam an expert diplomat, he's unable to prevent racial and ethnic borders from forming. Still, the garden becomes a place where wounds heal, friendships form, and seeds of change are sown. Readers won't gain any great appreciation for the art and science of gardening from this, but they may come away understanding that people can work side by side despite vastly different motives, attitudes, skills, and cultural backgrounds. It's a worthy idea, accompanied by Pedersen's chapter-heading black-and-white portraits, providing advance information about the participants' races and, here and there, ages.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780064472074
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 3/28/1999
  • Pages: 112
  • Sales rank: 27,262
  • Age range: 12 - 14 Years
  • Lexile: 710L (what's this?)
  • Series: Joanna Cotler Bks.
  • Product dimensions: 6.74 (w) x 7.92 (h) x 0.32 (d)

Meet the Author

Paul Fleischman grew up in Santa Monica, California in a house with a printing press, a grand piano, a shortwave radio, and his father—children's author Sid Fleischman. Playing recorder in early music consorts led to his books of verbal duets—I Am Phoenix, Joyful Noise (winner of the 1989 Newbery Medal), and Big Talk. His novels built from monologues include Bull Run, a 16-character account of the Civil War's first battle, and Seedfolks—the chronicle of the first year of a Cleveland community garden. His interest in theater inspired his young adult novels Mind's Eye, Seek, and Breakout, all of which revolve around the spoken word. His historical fiction includes Saturnalia and The Borning Room. He's written nonfiction and picture books as well, including Time Train, Weslandia, and Sidewalk Circus.

Alongside the Newbery Medal, he's won a Newbery Honor Book, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the PEN West Literary Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and most recently was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. He makes his home in the village of Aromas, California.

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Kim


I stood before our family altar. It was dawn. No one else in the apartment was awake. I stared at my father's photographhis thin face stem, lips latched tight. his eyes peering permanently to the right. I was nine years old and still hoped that perhaps his eyes might move. Might notice me.

The candies and the incense sticks, lit the day before to mark his death anniversary, had burned out. The rice and meat offered him were gone. After the evening feast, past midnight, I'd been wakened by my mother's crying. My oldestsister had joined in. My own tears had then come as well, but for a different reason.

I turned from the altar, tiptoed to the kitchen, and quietly drew a spoon from a drawer. I filled my lunch thermos with water and reached into our jar of dried lima beans. Then I walked outside to the street.

The sidewalk was completely empty. It was Sunday, early in April . An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble. In Vietnam we had no weather like that. Here in Cleveland people call it spring. I walked half a block, then crossed the street and reached the vacant lot.

I stood tall and scouted. No one was sleeping on the old couch in the middle. I'd never entered the lot before, or wanted to. I did so now, picking my way between tires and trash bags. I nearly stepped on two rats gnawing and froze. Then I told myself that I must show my bravery. I continued farther and chose a spot far from the sidewalk and hidden from view by a rusty refrigerator. I had to keep my project safe.

I took out my spoon and began to dig. The snow had melted, but the ground was hard. After much work, I finished one hole, thena second, then a third. I thought about how my mother and sisters remembered my father, how they knew his face from every angle and held in their fingers the feel of his hands. I had no such memories to cry over.I'd been born eight months after he'd died. Worse, he had no memories of me. When his spirit hovered over our altar, did it even know who I was?

I dug six holes. All his life in Vietnam my father had been a farmer. Here our apartment house had no yard. But in that vacant lot he would see me. He would watch my beans break ground and spread, and would notice with pleasure their pods growing plump. He would see my patience and my hard work. I would show him that I could raise plants, as he had. I would show him that I was his daughter.

My class had sprouted lima beans in paper cups the year before. I now placed a bean in each of the holes. I covered them up, pressing the soil down firmly with my fingertips. I opened my thermos and watered them all. And I vowed to myself that those beans would thrive.

Seedfolks. Copyright © by Paul Fleischman. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 2, 2008

    Don't judge a book by its cover

    When my English teacher assigned this book for summer reading, I thought okay, this is going to be a boring book. When I saw the cover, my next thought was this is going to be very boring. When I saw the amount of pages, I thought it was not much of a challenge for a soon-to-be-eighth-grader. One of my suspicions was true, and it was not much of a challenge. However, I was wrong about it looking and being boring. It was actually quite entertaining, and some of the individual stories really reached out to me (Maricela's and Curtis' stories really touched me). That just goes to show that you can't judge a book by its cover.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 19, 2006

    review seedfolks by paul fleishman

    I liked seedfolks because it made you think of how there is a lot of how there is a lot of racism or hate between cultures. This book is about many people with different backgrounds and has all different kinds of problems. Then they all start to Plant in this vacant lot. Although there was a something I didn¿t like it was that in each chapter it will cut of on the person¿s life they were talking about. And it will leave u hanging wondering what happened next after the problem was solved. I recommend this book to people that don¿t like to read long chapters.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 19, 2006

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    Seedfolks is a two thumbs up book for everyone who likes to read and I recommend this book to everyone. It does not matter if you are a kid or an adult you will like this novel. This novel also has a good example of how one person can make a big difference in a whole community. My favorite character in this book was Gonzalo. He came here to the U.S.A and learn English by watching TV just like I did. This is an awesome novel to read and I think everyone should read it, because is a great inspirational novel and you would learn that doing something for your community can make a big difference.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 19, 2006

    Seedfolks

    I liked this story. It told us so much about all the characters and how they all had problems. What I didn¿t like was when the story finally got good they started another vignette without even saying what happened to the other character. I liked this story especially for how the neighborhood came together to do something great for their city. I think this story will inspire people to do something good and help clean up their community because the smallest lot can make them look like a dump, even if they are the cleanest people you¿ll ever meet.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 19, 2006

    Seedfolks!!

    Seedfolks Seedfolks was a great story it was very short and very understandable. I recommend Seedfolks to everyone that likes to make a difference in their community and life¿s. In the story I like how the chapters changed from character to character. There was a character name Kim and she was my favorite character she wanted to make a difference in her community. I relate to this because I really want to make a difference in our community by ending violence. You should all take a chance and read the book Seedfolks it is outstanding!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 19, 2006

    Seedfolks

    I think Seedfolks was a good book because it shows how a small rundown city can turn into a beautiful place. It shows how fifteen people¿s lives get changed by planting and gardening. Also because this book was clear if the author needed to say something he just came out and said it. The other reason was it made you feel like you were one of the characters like you really got into it and that helped me understand it. In this city people learned to stand up for what they believe in, take charge and help each other.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 21, 2006

    seedfolks

    SEEDFOLKS I think that this was a very good book because each character explains how important the book was. It also describes lots of things about the garden and about the people in the city related to the garden. It also explains different people planting different things and how they started talking to each other. It also explains about every body back ground. Also it talks about who started the garden, and how it ended. I also think that this book give lot of advice to all the people because it¿s mostly how important the garden is and how people come to earth. My advice to all people that incase your interested you might want to read it but incase you are not you could read different books from Paul Fleischman.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    Seedfolks

    Readers around the world should check out this book. It is a very interesting story about a community brought closer by a garden. I like the way each character is connected to each other in a specific way. Characters help each other find understanding about the community and how they are not so different form each other. It¿s a short book but a very interesting story that you don¿t want to stop reading. I advise everyone to read this book because of it unexpected ending.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    Seedfolks

    This book Seedfolks is a good book for all ages it is a four star book. This book is about a trash filled lot and started to change when a girl plants her seeds in it. In time grows in a community garden one by one everyone that knew about it started pitch in to make it bigger and effect on there lives. This book well make you want to grow a garden of your own. You will grow to love this book I recommend this book for all who love to garden.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    Seedfolks

    I think Seedfolks is an awesome book for both young readers and adults. It is entertaining and very creative. It¿s about how the neighborhood got together when a young girl started a garden. At first no one communicated with each others. After weeks, months, and years people were already used to helping each others out. At first they weren¿t much commutative but soon they all began talking like if they knew each others since birth. The garden brought them together. For me Seedfolks was a good book. It explained everything so clearly, and it was very entertaining once you adjusted to it. I recommend this book, for anyone who wants to see how little things could turn into big ones!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    Seedfolks

    SEEDFOLKS Seedfolks was a stupid book because the same thing happens in every chapter. In the first chapter the little girl sees a empty lot and started planting something in it. Then the other characters see the garden and they want to plant something to make someone feel better, this happens through out the story. It is also boring because the characters had a problem in there life and it is about plants and not every one likes plants. Also not one person can change everything in the neighborhood.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    One of the most weiredest books I ever read

    Seedfolks is an awesome book to read because it tells you how a small girl can change the whole community, by planting a seed. I would recommend this book to all the teenagers because it would help them understand that they are able to change something. In Seedfolks a lot of characters had a problem with someone or them selves, just like Sae Young that was scared to be around people. The whole book started by a young girl, without knowing that she was going to help a lot of people by planting a seed. Little by little people started plating something and become a garden from a lot. By just reading Seedfolks will make you prove especially if you like to help people to make changes.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    Seedfolks

    Samuel Ocampo 2nd period Seedfolks Seedfolks is a good book to read that my opinion about Seedfolks. It shows how all the community work together. And that they get along with each other because they are planting a garden together. In the story show that in the garden there all different races and they get along. so they throw up a big barbecue and all neighbor broth some thing different food.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    Seedfolks

    I think that Seedfolks is a must read book. Everyone I see, I tell them to read Seedfolks. I like this book because of the drama that the character¿s showed. It shows how people come together and become a family. It also shows how much it is important to become one with another. This could teach people a valuable lesson in life. People could get a better understanding in life. Every character in this book expresses how they feel about the garden. This will teach you a lesson.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    'Great for SMART people.'

    I think Seedfolks is a good book to read if you like reading about different perspectives, ages, life changing events, putting you to think quotes, people expressing themselves, cultures and problems. This book has everything you would want to read except that at the end of each paragraph it leaves you like ¿What?¿ because of the fact that a person is speaking in one chapter and another is speaking in another chapter. This book is all about getting over your fears. For example, a character in the story is totally freaked out about going out because of the bad neighborhood, but she gets over it by a small garden made by ¿the neighborhood.¿ This book puts you think, by making you connect the characters from one chapter to things that happen in other chapters. If you¿re into books that show problems from the real world this book is just great!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    A awosomw book.

    Seedfolks Seedfolks is a awesome book to read, I would recommend you read this book cause it talks about, all these young to old people pinch in to become one big happy family and by making their neighborhood go from worst to fabulist. This book would be the best book to read, cause basically a small little girl starts this neighborhood off. This book is like a family book, for the whole family.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    recommendation

    I think Seedfolks is a good story because it talks about 13 different people and how they all join planting a garden and how the neighborhood were they live changed. No one before use to care about making a garden except a young girl started planting seeds so that she can grow some vegetables. So all the people in that neighborhood started planting too and helping around with that garden. I recommend this book for people who like helping around in the neighborhood and that like planting a garden.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    'Seedfolks my opinion'

    ¿Seedfolks¿ I think that ¿Seedfolks¿ is an ok book I myself didn¿t find it that interesting. But that¿s only one persons opinion some people like my 2nd period teacher mite find that it is the greatest book ever. ¿Seedfolks¿ is a combination of stories. It¿s the same story for everyone except they all tell the story in there point of view. They each tell how they hade to do with the garden that the little girl started and how different people worked together to make it a better place to live.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    Seedfolks

    In my opinion Seedfolks is a very interesting book. I recommend this book to people of all ages and backgronds. Right away when you read the Kim chapter you¿re like, ¿Okay now, what is this little girl about to do?!¿ What I didn¿t like was everyone tried to keep to themselves they really did not talk to others with different cultures or backgrounds. They treated each other like foes unless they already knew them. The thing I liked most about this book is that one little girl and 4 seeds over time turned an old dirt field into a beautiful neighborhood garden ¿and a child shall lead¿.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2006

    Seedfolks

    I thought Seedfolks, the book, was appealing and thrilling! I liked some the characters with included Maricela, Wendall, Curtis, and Nora. It was kind of amusing how they expressed themselves! It also had worth! I loved reading this book and couldn¿t stop until I completed it!!! I would give this book four (4) stars!!!! I urge Seedfolks for kids twelve and up to maybe fifteen. My favorite character is Maricela. She is a sixteen-year-old, pregnant teen, who gets involved with a program that helps pregnant teens get the GED and take them to their doctor¿s appointments!! Seedfolks wasn¿t that long and it wasn¿t short either!! I think the theme was to get to know people and to work with diverse kinds of people with diverse environment!!!!

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