Back to Great Titles for Book Clubs
Link Education Book Club Recommendation

Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

$8.31

ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children’s Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children’s Book in the Language Arts

A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads.

Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden’s founding and first year. The book’s short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country.

Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway.

Categories: ,

Related products

Placeholder
Getting Started With Bookclubs
What’s included? You’ll receive a welcome packet including our philosophy of parent engagement, alignment to Joyce Epstein’s Six Types of Parent Involvement, a parent survey, 10 reasons to have a parent book club and more! These sessions are all about community building. You’ll read and discuss Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman and The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. To help you organize and facilitate your meetings, we’ve included meeting agendas, discussion questions, community building activities and more.
$60.00 Add to cart
Book Club Recommendation The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle
MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
$16.68 Add to Cart
Book Recommendation The Skin I'm In
The Skin I’m In

So begins the story of Maleeka Madison, a child burdened with the low self-esteem that many black girls face when they’re darker skinned.  When Maleeka lays eyes on her new teacher, Miss Saunders, she encounters someone who, she feels, is … Continued

$4.37 Add to Cart
Getting Started with Book Clubs
Getting Started with Book Clubs
Start a book club in your school or community!  This package includes everything you need for your first three meetings.
     
$60.00 Add to cart