  | Millie Fleur's poison garden Author: Mandin, Christy | |
| Price: $23.28 | ||
Summary:
Millie Fleur La Fae is new in Garden Glen, and she plans to plant her garden of strange and sometimes dangerous plants, but the town garden club does not approve of her and wants to tear it down.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: LG Reading Level: 3.40 Points: .5 Quiz: 551423 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (05/15/24)
Booklist (+) (01/15/25)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 08/01/2024 In Garden Glen, every house and yard are pristine and identical until Millie Fleur La Fae moves in. To make the new house feel like home, she plants seeds from her old garden. The fast-growing plants are fanged, tentacled, and glowing; she feeds them bones to help them thrive. The stuffy Garden Glen Rosebud Club thinks her garden is odd, unruly, and appalling. They protest it loudly, but Millie adores her Sneezing Stickyweed, Belching Huckleberry, and Fanged Fairy Moss and invites her class to come tour her weird, wild Poison Garden—which they all agree is wonderful. The messaging of being true to yourself and accepting and celebrating others’ differences is proudly stationed at the forefront of this simple and sweet story. Mandin’s illustrations are charming and original, with plenty of details within the eyeball-encrusted and sharp-toothed plant personalities to delight young readers. Fans of witches and monsters will be especially thrilled with the author’s note, which shares that this was inspired by the true story of a British Duchess growing her own Poison Garden. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
