Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Author
Language
English
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Description
After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, Victoria Jones's only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated for the system, Victoris has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. A local florist discovers her talents, and Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them.
Author
Language
English
Description
"For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children-- Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six-- in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
187 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings-- love or grief, jealousy or devotion. Now modern-day romantics are enjoying a resurgence of this bygone custom. Kirkby shares the historical literary, and cultural significance of flowers.
