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Author:

Going, K. L. (Kelly L.)

Title:

The garden of Eve / K.L. Going.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

234 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Seeds--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.
Orchards--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Family life--New York (State)--Fiction.
New York (State)--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.

Notes:

2009-10 Mark Twain Award Nominee.

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0152059865 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780152059866 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)86090235

LCCN:

2007005074

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