Seedfolks is a great story about immigration, fitting in, and making an unusual place feel like home. It is told in multiple points of view, and not a single one is repeated. It's the story of people from all over becoming family, and an empty lot becoming a garden. It's a great way to show that you can grow something out of nothing.
This book is a great story to use in the classroom. It's not a very long book, and has a very simple story line to follow. It would be great for beginning chapter books. I personally read this book in the seventh grade during our immigration unit in social studies. I think this is a great story to use alongside of immigration. It would be a great book to use as a read aloud as well as a book club book. What I thought was so interesting was that the book is told from so many different perspectives. Not one of them is ever repeated, but the characters appear in each others' tales, sometimes with names and sometimes without. But based on the previous testimonies, you know who is who by the end of the book regardless of the fact that we've only heard from them once. By the end of the story, a picture is forming of who is who in the garden. We get to know what each character plants and why. Some plant things from their home countries, this could launch an interesting discussion of culture in the classroom! I very much enjoyed the book, and I see many ways it could be used in the classroom.
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