 Hang on for the ride! With
characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family
sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food
pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised
in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live
without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries
about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en
route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and
also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation,
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for
putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified
farms at the center of the American diet. This enthralling narrative
will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You
are what you eat. |
 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. |
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Discussion Questions for Animal, Vegetable, Miracle |
Discussion Questions for Seedfolks |
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Special Events Related Websites | A Letter from Laura Ness "Going Green," Gardening and Eating Locally: Nonfiction for Adults | Country Life and Conservation: Fiction for Adults Living Locally: Audio Materials Gardening and Eating Locally: Picture Books for Kids | Gardening and Eating Locally: Nonfiction for Kids & Teens |
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