Growing Green

Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farm boy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new audiobook, listeners follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten.

Ruby's mind is always full of ideas. One windy day, she invites her brothers to help build something stupendous. But her brothers don't want to plan—they only want to play. As the wind huffs and puffs and blows their hasty efforts down, can Ruby prove that patience and persistence pay off?

When Marilla and Matthew decide to adopt a boy from an orphanage they are not sure what to expect. But it's certainly not the imaginative, red-haired little girl who arrives at Green Gables instead... This charming story has been retold and adapted for ages 6+.

This story follows two young sisters, Lily (6) and Rose (4), as they transition from a peaceful country life to the rough streets of the city. After their mother, Grace, loses everything and has to start over, she moves her daughters from their rural home filled with fruit trees, fresh grass, and the safety of their grandmother’s home to a small apartment in a low-income neighborhood. Through the ups and downs, the girls learn to navigate their new world of city buses, crowded streets, and the challenges of urban life, all while maintaining their sweet spirits and good manners.

Come explore with us The World of PaintBears™ where Gregory Green and Pauly Purple learn one of life's most important lessons. Don't judge others by the color of their fur but by their actions and how they treat others.

It starts off as a normal week for Rowena. A car full of stewed apples. A police call. A desperate struggle to keep Dad off national TV.

Farming, growing your own crops, and raising animals have never been as easy as they are today. With modern technology and access to a plethora of knowledge and resources, farming cannot only be easy, but profitable as well - even for someone who has never stepped out of the city. In fact, you can do it from the comfort of your own home!

Organic gardener, environmentalist, and pop-up chef Alice Mary Alvrez wants to make it as easy as possible to reduce your footprint, grow and eat fabulous organic vegetables, and maintain a planet-positive, animal-friendly lifestyle. Her book Plant-Powered Cooking is simply brimming with brilliant ideas you can use from tips for growing your own food, shopping, and cooking techniques for every mealtime. Learn surprising facts about the impact of meat and animal products on the environment and how even small do-it-yourself ideas lead to real impact.

Here is marvelous advice to reduce your food budget, eat organic, and keep your home eco-friendly. Inside, you'll find tips for greening up all areas of your garden. Learn surprising facts about your impact on the environment and change your habits with these do-it-yourself ideas. Start with small changes, like growing basic herbs, and work your way up to raising bees, every kind of vegetable and fruit, as well as tips on composting weeds, clippings, and leftovers so you have nutrient-rich soil.

After a traumatic run-in with the fortune teller from a visiting funfair - thanks to an unfortunately timed sneeze - Riley finds himself cursed. Life as he knows it quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters - from wetting himself onstage during the school show, accidentally supergluing himself to his classmates and ruining the school football team’s sponsorship deal, to flooding his house and losing class four’s pet rabbit - Riley knows the bad luck is out to get him. Enter new kid: Brad Chicago. He’s super-cool, well-groomed and stylish, with an excellent stationery collection.

Farah is the new girl at school and the dupatta covering her head makes her just a little different from the other students. Because she hasn't learned the English language yet, she knows that some people might not be very friendly. The class takes a field trip to an apple orchard. Farah sees that some of the children want to become friends with her on the hay ride. When it comes time to make the apple cider, however, other classmates protest as she drops the only green apple into a vat full of ripe red ones.

Grace has a lovely day with her grandma from gooey grapes to hungry goats to greedy geese. This story is a fun listen for children as it takes the use of alliteration to help listeners in sounding out the letter G. Fans of the Alliteration series and Nicky Gamer-Jones, Charlie's Cheeky Chickens, and Archie's Awful Apples will love this adventure with Grace.

Motivated by her love for the game and inspired by the legendary Jackie Robinson, Mamie Johnson is determined to be a professional baseball pitcher. But in a sport that's determined by white men, there is no place for a black woman. Mamie doesn't give up - from the time she insists on trying out for the all-male, all-white Police Athletic League until she realizes her dream and becomes one of three women to play in the Negro Leagues. Mamie Johnson's life shows that with courage and perseverance one can overcome even the greatest challenges.

Adam and Thomas is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II by banding together in the forest. They are alone, visited only furtively every few days by Mina, a mercurial girl who herself has found refuge from the war by living with a peasant family. She makes secret journeys and brings the boys parcels of food at her own risk.

Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Soon, her mother will upend their perfect little family, adding a stepfather and six-year-old twin stepsisters. She sends Macy next door to help 86-year-old Iris Gillan, who is getting ready to move into an assisted-living facility. Iris can't pack a single box on her own, and, worse, she doesn't know sign language. Soon, through notes and books and cookies, a bond grows between them, and this friendship, odd and unexpected, may be just what Macy needs to face the changes in her life.

Mindfulness in Gardening explores the activity of gardening as an exercise for both body and mind. Ark Redwood, a professional gardener for over 30 years and currently head gardener at Chalice Well, one of Britain’s most sacred gardens, guides you through the changing seasons, expanding your...

Be kind to your wallet: Grow your own food. Do you want to eat healthier and fresher vegetables without worrying about added chemicals? Gardening is gaining popularity day by day as many households make the switch toward self-grown sustenance. The beauty of having your own garden is the flexibility to grow vegetables anywhere you want - and that really does mean anywhere. Whether you’re in a tiny studio apartment or you have your own piece of land, an urban garden is just what you need.

This audiobook is an introduction to homesteading and turning your space into a self sufficient environment. However big or small it may be, this audiobook will guide you through the steps needed to get you well informed on what to expect in the beginning, during and after stages of planning and executing your self sufficient space. Urban homesteads are very versatile. I’ve seen people homestead on their apartment roof, in their little inner-city yard, in the yard of their suburban family home, in warehouses, shipping containers, and so much more. You can build a farm anywhere.

Anne Shirley...in her own words. Anne is at one of her "bends in the road" as she is about to finally leave Green Gables to study at Redmond College with a certain Gilbert Blythe. Anne, taking a wistful look around her east gable room, thinks back to her tearful first night at Green Gables and faintly remembers hiding her secret diary somewhere...Anne finds and opens her diary, and it transports her way back to her forgotten past, to relive her days at the cold and bleak orphanage asylum, where she still somehow managed to have a series of remarkable adventures....

Hydroponics is going to tell you all about growing plants without soil and how you can grow them by yourself. Whenever we think about plants, we believe we need soil to grow them. But that is not always the case. A lot of plants can be grown without soil. These plants have a different type of root structure that can help them grow in a "no soil" environment. Only a special segment of plants is not hydroponic, and a lot of plants that grow in soil can be grown in a hydroponic manner.