In the garden, there is a Serpent, and the Serpent teaches Eve everything.

Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.

As sixteen-year-old Ellie pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own.

Honora Menapace%u2013a reclusive neighbor%u2013is sick, and Andrea%u2019s role is clear: Honora%u2019s garden must be taken care of and her pottery finished, and someone needs to feed her dog, Zena. But what starts out as a simple job yanks Andrea%u2019s back-row seat out from under her. Life is no longer predictable, and nothing is what it seems.

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.

bandoned by both her parents, nine-year-old Wise Child goes to live with the witch woman Juniper, who begins to train her in the ways of herb and magic.

Rinna has always known the forest would be there for her. But when she can no longer hear the voices of the trees, she begins to wonder what lies beyond the trees.

Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.

Can Hattie overcome frost and drought to turn her uncle's unproductive farm into a home?

Darcy has just started high school; her older sister, Adel, goes to dances at the army base; and their mother tends her beautiful garden, the biggest in town. But Darcy's world is changed forever when her mother goes to Atlanta for tests. The diagnosis is not good--breast cancer.

When funny, older Johanna hires Finn to create a garden, his gardening ideas backfire comically. But Johanna and the garden help Finn discover his talents for connecting with people.

When Cassie's grandfather falls ill, she and her mother return to his farm, where Cassie discovers a wonderful, terrible secret about her family.

When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.

Visual artist Rob Kesseler uses special light techniques and scanning electron microscopy to create astonishing images of a variety of pollens, seeds, and fruits, while seed-morphologist Stuppy and palynologist Madeline Harley explain their botanical purposes.

This is not your grandmother's gardening book.