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    Pumpkin Spice
    Pumpkin Spice
    Pumpkin Spice
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    Pumpkin Spice

    By Jenny Meyerhoff and Éva Chatelain

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    Anna and her community gardening friends are excited for the Windy City Pumpkin Fest but then their prize pumpkin disappears in the second book in the Friendship Garden series.

    Autumn has arrived at the Friendship Garden! That means:

    1. Pumpkins for carving
    2. Sweet potatoes for eating
    3. Piles of leaves for jumping

    Besides tons of yummy fall food, Anna is excited for the Windy City Pumpkin Fest. There is going to be a bake-off, a moon bounce—even a biggest pumpkin contest! Anna, Kaya, and Reed are sure that their pumpkin, Herbert, will take home first prize.

    But just two days before the contest, Herbert disappears! Kaya and Anna are sure someone stole their perfect pumpkin. After all, pumpkins can’t just get up and walk away by themselves. Can the Friendship Garden crew catch the orange-fingered thief in time for the festival?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9781481439121
    Pumpkin Spice
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    Jenny Meyerhoff

    Jenny Meyerhoff is author of the Barftastic Life of Louie Burger series, as well as the books Sami’s Sleepaway Summer, Third Grade Baby, and Queen of Secrets. She is also the proud planter of her very own vegetable garden. Jenny grows string beans, broccoli, and spinach, but she has never picked a purple pepper. When she’s not busy writing, she likes to hang out with her husband and three children playing Scrabble and watching movies.

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      Pumpkin Spice - Jenny Meyerhoff

      Reed wrapped both of his arms around the biggest pumpkin in the Friendship Garden.

      Um, Reed, said Anna, as she picked a withered zucchini plant, I know that some gardeners talk and sing to plants to help them grow, but I’ve never heard of anyone hugging a plant.

      Reed stretched the tips of his fingers just a bit farther until they touched. Then he let go of the pumpkin. "I wasn’t hugging it. I was measuring it."

      Does measuring a pumpkin help it grow? asked Kaya as she removed the Popsicle sticks that had labeled all of the garden’s plants. It was almost the end of October. Nothing much was growing anymore.

      Don’t you guys remember? Reed pointed to the flyer hanging on the Shoots and Leaves Community Garden bulletin board. The Windy City Pumpkin Fest is this Sunday, and I want to win the prize for biggest pumpkin.

      "You want to win? Kaya asked him accusingly. You mean we want to win!"

      Reed’s cheeks turned pink. I mean I want the Friendship Garden to win. Herbert just needs to grow a little bit bigger.

      Herbert? Kaya scratched her head. Who names a pumpkin Herbert?

      Anna studied Herbert. He was the biggest and roundest pumpkin in the Friendship Garden’s pumpkin patch. As far as Anna was concerned, Herbert was pretty much P-E-R-F-E-C-T.

      When Anna had first moved to Chicago from upstate New York, she didn’t think she’d ever get to have her own garden again. But then Anna met Kaya and Reed, and the three of them started a gardening club called the Friendship Garden. Mr. Hoffman, their third-grade teacher, was the grown-up in charge, and they grew all their vegetables at Shoots and Leaves, the community garden in their neighborhood.

      In Chicago, many people didn’t have room for gardens in their backyards. In fact, a lot of people didn’t even have backyards, so sometimes empty lots were turned into growing spaces. There, different neighbors had their own plots of land to plant flowers and vegetables.

      What about Mr. Eggers’s pumpkins? That one in the corner of his plot looks pretty big. Anna tilted her head toward the front of Shoots and Leaves. Mr. Eggers was an old man with silver curly hair and a bushy mustache. He was trimming back pumpkin vines, but just then he looked up and frowned at the kids in the Friendship Garden.

      His pumpkin isn’t round like Herbert. It’s much narrower, but a lot taller, Kaya whispered, and it might be bigger too. It’s hard to tell.

      Okay, everyone, time for a break! Mr. Hoffman set up his three-legged gardening stool and beckoned for the kids to gather around.

      Anna followed Kaya and Reed over to Mr. Hoffman. Next to him stood Simone, a fifth grader whose mom, Maria, was the president of Shoots and Leaves. That meant Maria was in charge of the whole garden.

      You did great work today. Mr. Hoffman pulled a brown clipboard from his backpack. I think we are right on target for putting the garden to bed for the winter. Why don’t all the teams give me a report? Bailey? How about your group?

      We were in charge of clearing out the broccoli, Bailey said proudly, pointing to a small section at the front of the Friendship Garden. They were really easy to pull up.

      But there was so much dirt! said Mackenzie, wrinkling her nose. Right, Bay?

      Bailey looked back and forth between Mr. Hoffman and Mackenzie. Finally she wrinkled her nose too. Yeah, tons of dirt.

      It kept spilling on our shoes, said Mackenzie, pointing at the matching pairs of silver-and-white sneakers on her and Bailey’s feet. "We just got these."

      Kaya leaned over to Anna and muttered, her eyes sparkling. "What a surprise! Dirt in a

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