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A Place To Grow

A moving tribute to immigration and the love of a family.

A family is like a seed. It needs to have a place to set down roots. But sometimes the land where it rests is hard and cold, without welcome or nourishment. Then the family must fly to a new place, where it can finally blossom.

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As a father and daughter work together in their garden, he explains what a seed needs to flourish and the reasons their family immigrated to a new country—looking for hope, like sunlight, and peace, like good earth. Looking for a place to grow.

Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

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