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Jayden's Impossible Garden
Mélina Mangal
Illustrator: Ken Daley
Ages: 6+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Free Spirit
ISBN: 978-1-63198-590-4
Keywords: nature, neighborhoods, urban gardening, mothers and sons, disabilities, wheelchair
When some people in Jayden's African-American neighborhood doubt that nature exists in the city, he and his older friend, a wheelchair user, prove otherwise. Bright illustrations. Back matter includes activities.