Seedfolks is told by a diverse group of characters. Each chapter is told from a different person’s point of view, each of a different ethnic group. The book follows the characters through their journey in building a garden in the middle of Cleveland, Ohio. They have to clear the big lot of all the trash that the locals throw in the empty space and begin working up the dirt. It all started with a young Vietnamese girl who planted six lima beans. It follows thirteen different characters through their garden endeavors. Each character has a very different reason as to why they want to plant in the garden. Some are only looking to make money, some are forced, and others are doing it to merely find themselves. This is a great story of people who would probably never have been connected coming together in a common place all working at the same thing, but at the same time having very different motives.
This book would be great in a classroom setting of any kind. You could teach this book at the very beginning of your year and show the similarities between the garden’s sense of community and the classroom’s community setting.
Fleischman, Paul. (1997). Seedfolks. New York: HarperCollins. 102 pp. ISBN: 0-06-447207-8.
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