The Garden of Eve
Orlando : Harcourt, [2007]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 234 pages ; 22 cm
Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.
Contents:
The fork in the road -- The pale boy -- The house by the cemetery -- tomorrow -- Alex -- Ghosts -- Mysteries -- Maggie's story -- Dreaming -- Birthday wishes -- The only gift that counts -- The search for a stone -- Truth and lies -- The rest of the story -- One giant step -- Signs -- The tree -- Into the magic -- The house of Alex Cordez -- Into town -- Mom -- Night searchers -- Homecoming -- Pieces of the puzzle -- To tell the truth -- Hidden treasure -- Inside the vault -- Not that kind of tree -- Back to the garden -- A tiny twig -- A final gift.
Subjects:
Seeds -- Juvenile fiction.
Magic -- Juvenile fiction.
Orchards -- Juvenile fiction.
Death -- Juvenile fiction.
Grief -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- New York (State) -- Juvenile fiction.
New York (State) -- Juvenile fiction.
Seeds -- Juvenile fiction.
Magic -- Juvenile fiction.
Orchards -- Juvenile fiction.
Death -- Juvenile fiction.
Grief -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- New York (State) -- Juvenile fiction.
New York (State) -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 780L
ISBN:
9780152059866 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C Going | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Fiction | In |
C Going | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C Going | Sandhills Indoors | Children's Fiction | Out (Due: 5/9/2024) |
C Going | Southeast | Children's Fiction | In |