The Vanderbeekers and the hidden garden

Name: The Vanderbeekers and the hidden garden
ISBN: 9781328770028

Karina Yan Glaser

Ages 8–12

Readers rate it 4.5 (4 on Hardcover)

341 pages · Released 2018

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A note for parents

The Vanderbeekers is a warmhearted middle-grade story centered on a large, loving family working together to help their neighbors through a difficult time. The book emphasizes kindness, community, resilience, and problem-solving while exploring themes of gardening, friendship, and urban life in Harlem. There is a mention of a serious health crisis affecting the upstairs neighbors, but it is handled with age-appropriate sensitivity and serves to motivate the children's compassion rather than creating graphic distress.

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From the publisher

"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"-- "When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--