false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165554027m/5985.jpg 5985 9 A much-loved English novel reminiscent of <i>The Secret Garden</i><br><br>Someone has dug up the private garden in the square and taken buckets of dirt, and Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is sure that a gang of boys from run-down Catford Street must be to blame. But Angela's sister Olivia isn't so sure. Olivia wonders why the neighborhood children&#8212;the &#8220;sparrows&#8221; she sometimes watches from the window of her house &#8212;have to be locked out of the garden. Don't they have a right to enjoy the place, too? But neither Angela nor Olivia has any idea what sent the neighborhood waif Lovejoy Mason and her few friends in search of &#8220;good, garden earth.&#8221; Still less do they imagine where their investigation of the incident will lead them&#8212;to a struggling restaurant, a bombed-out church, and at the heart of it all, a hidden garden. 2015322 1955 An Episode of Sparrows (New York Review Children's Collection) total:136|5:56|4:56|3:21|2:2|1:1| 136 572 184 26 4 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1973 Thu Aug 09 21:22:41 -0700 2007 Thu May 28 07:32:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri May 18 23:22:03 -0700 2007 Fri May 18 23:30:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Feb 27 11:16:55 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 11:17:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jul 27 07:40:20 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 07:40:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 10 17:24:52 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 17:19:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 14 11:45:18 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 12:00:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 16:05:30 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 09:29:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Sep 20 18:22:46 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 11:59:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 15:03:35 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 15:07:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1961 Fri Apr 10 12:48:37 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 12:51:32 -0700 2009
I'm so afraid to reread it for fear of finding it not what it was. But I'm feeling more confident with it being publ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 25 15:42:57 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 15:48:39 -0800 2009 "You are making a mountain out of a molehill."
Olivia answered, "A molehill is a mountain to a sparrow."
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