Harcourt, Inc.
Available: 09/01/07
5.50 x 8.25 · 206 pages
978-0-15-205986-6 CDN $18.95 · cl

Ages 8–12

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The Garden of Eve

K. L. Going

The Garden of Eve, from award-winning K. L. Going, mixes spine-tingling chills with a deeply resonating story that beautifully explores grief, healing and growth.

Evie reluctantly moves with her widowed father to Beaumont, New York, where he has bought an apple orchard. He dismisses rumours that the town is cursed and that the trees haven’t borne fruit in decades. Evie doesn’t believe in things like curses and fairy tales any more: if fairy tales were real, her mom would still be alive.

But odd things happen in Beaumont: Evie meets a boy who claims to be dead and receives a mysterious seed as an 11th birthday gift. Once planted, the seed grows into a tree overnight, but only Evie and the dead boy can see it—or go where it leads.

K. L. GOING (New York) is the author of Saint Iggy, a Publishers Weekly Pick of the Year, and the Printz Honor Book Fat Kid Rules the World.