People all around the world enjoy the hobby of gardening. They love planting tiny seeds in the soil and watching them sprout into mature plants. Gardening isn t just for adults, however. Kids can plan, create, and maintain their own gardens, too. Gardening for Kids is rich with ideas and instructions for making water gardens, flower gardens, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens, butterfly gardens, and landscape designs. Landscaping designing a garden for a particular space is a lot like creating a work of art. From an ordinary piece of land, you can create a setting that invites people to stop for a minute, rest, and admire its beauty. Follow these step-by-step instructions for selecting a location and designing your garden; adding borders and a dramatic focal point; choosing the best plants for your design, soil, and climate; and caring for your landscaping once everything is in place. Keep track of all your plantings with personalized seed markers you can make yourself. The end result will be an attractive garden space that you can call your own....

When Newbery Medal winner Katherine Paterson was a young girl, she wanted to be either a missionary or a movie star. It wasn't until she was a mother of three that her first book, Who Are You? was published in 1966. She's been writing ever since and now has more than thirty books to her credit. In much of her earlier work, Katherine calls upon her rich experiences of growing up in China and working as a missionary as a young adult in Japan to bring her stories to life. Katherine also remembers what it is to be young and can relate to the heartaches and disappointments experienced by her young readers. This connection to her audience keeps her books flying off library and bookstore shelves alike, earning her the honored title of classic storyteller....

The life of singer/actress Hilary Duff....

As a youngster, Jesse McCartney performed in the stage productions his actor-parents created for the community. When he was nine years old, he toured the United States performing as Louis in the well-known theater production The King and I. Before long Jesse was playing the character of Adam Chandler Jr. in the long-running daytime soap opera, All My Children, and Bradin Westerly in the WB Network s show Summerland. Jesse has also starred in movies. However, acting isn t this rising star s only talent. He sings, writes songs, and records CDs, too. As Jesse himself says: I was born to be an entertainer....

Born into a family that values music, Natasha Bedingfield s solo career began in the shadow of her older brother, Daniel. But when her single Unwritten climbed to the top of the American pop music charts, Natasha s music suddenly seemed to be everywhere. Unwritten was even used by Barack Obama as part of his presidential campaign. Now that she is a singer songwriter in her own right, Natasha uses her fame to call attention to conditions in the world that need attending to, especially those involving children. She is as passionate about the causes she supports as she is about her music. Whether on stage or off, Natasha Bedingfield is connecting with her fans and making a difference in their lives....

If you were a boy growing up in pre-Columbian America, you would learn how to hunt, grow crops, or fish for your dinner. If you were a girl, you d learn how to skin animals and use the hides to make clothing, or twist the fibers of plants to make yarn. You might also be a builder taking bark and sewing it to saplings to make a shelter called a wigwam. Even though you wouldn t go to school, you d learn everything you needed to know to become a happy and healthy member of society. Older members of the clan would teach you. Find out how the many cultures across the land, from the Thules and the Iroquois to the people of the Great Plains, lived, loved, and celebrated life in the Americas before European settlement....

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