Summary Of Seedfolks By Paul Fleischman

Personal Response: I read the book SeedFolks by Paul Fleischman. The book wasn’t really what I thought it was going to be. The book was pretty boring but it had a bigger meaning to it. There was an abandon lot full of junk that no one cared about and everyone forgot about. The crime filled community never communicated with one another ever, until the lot. The lot changed people and the way they looked at the community.

Plot: The book started off about a young girl who didn’t know anything about her father besides he was a farmer. She found an old lot that was loaded with junk and glass and anything you could imagine. She new her dad enjoied to plant beans, so that's what she decided to plant. She took 5 bean seeds and a bottle of water to water the beans. A older man in a window that overlooked the lot saw the young girl who
In that neighborhood it normally ment either drugs or something bad. The old man went to where the girl was and dug up the spot, but to his surprise he only found five green beans in the ground. He felt really bad and he put them back with a gentle touch. When he went to stand up the girl was there no words were said, from that day on the old man made it his priority to watch the beans and take care of them. The girl and the old man started to be friends. The old man liked the idea of a “garden” so he went down there with gloves a hoe and a couple of packets of seed and he went down there and cleared his patch of all the debris and he worked his section of land until the sun set on that day. A couple days later two more people joined the lot and cleared their own section out to plant their own exotic seeds that meant something to them. Pretty soon a couple more people came to the lot to plant their own little garden, but one of them wanted to help and wanted to change the lot. She made phone calls to the city