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The Summer My Father Was Ten

The Summer My Father Was Ten

Brisson, Pat
Shine, Andrea

Paperback

FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 1563978296
ISBN13: 9781563978296
Publisher: Boyds Mills Pr
Published: Sep 1 1999
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.13 Width: 8.72 Depth: 12.00
Language: English
Awards: Georgia Children's Book Award, North Carolina Children's Book Award
In this touching book with a moral message, a child retells the story of her father's youth when an impromptu baseball game gets out of hand and some unthinking boys end up destroying an old man's garden.

Every year my father and I plant a garden. Tomatoes, peppers, onions, marigold, and zinnias grow in neat, straight rows...and every spring my father tells me about Mr. Bellavista and the summer my father was ten.

That was the summer a boy lost a baseball under a tomato plant in Mr. Bellavista's garden. And someone tossed a tomato back instead of the baseball. A lively battle took place, which seemed like great fun at the time, but in the end, Mr. Bellavista's garden was ruined.

In a touching story of one boy's efforts to make amends, we see the rebuilding of a garden and the forming of a relationship across generations. With luminous, beautifully detailed watercolors, this excellent book for the whole family shows how we can turn our mistakes into some of life's greatest moments.

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