A review by veganemelda
A Handful of Seeds by Monica Hughes, Luis Garay

5.0

This kid's book introduces a lot of issues (poverty, police brutality, gardening, etc.) subtlety and you can talk about them in depth more as your child grows. A young girl and her grandmother are sharecroppers and when the grandmother dies, the granddaughter runs away to the city and joins a gang of abandoned children in a tent city. She convinces them to grow a garden so they don't have to steal food but the cops come, trample the garden and beat the children. In the end, the children end up re-building the garden and making peace with the rival gang of neglected children. It's a sweet story.