The Ugly Vegetables Children's Chapter Books and Carmela is feeling lost

and Carmela is feeling lost and lonely

The shoemaker's wife

Especially when it turns out he has a very opinionated dog named Pumpkin

Oliver and his mom finally have a place to call home

The Ugly Vegetables Children's Chapter Books and Carmela is feeling lostIn this charming story about celebrating differences a Chinese American girl wishes for a garden of bright flowers instead of one full of bumpy, ugly, vegetables. The neighbors' gardens look so much prettier and so much more inviting to the young gardener than the garden of "black purple green vines, fuzzy wrinkled leaves, prickly stems, and a few little yellow flowers" that she and her mother grow. Nevertheless, mother assures her that "these are