Alice spends so much time in her family's garden, she thinks of it as her summer home. She loves the bean and corn and lettuce they grow. And she notices that birds and beetles and rabbits love the garden, too—it's their home as well. Some animals come to eat the plants, and others come to eat the animals that eat the plants. Alice discovers dozens of food chains right in her own backyard!

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld uses the story of one family's garden to explain both what plants need to grow and how a garden gathers together many creatures into one amazing food web. Illustrator Priscilla Lamont's humorous, detail-packed paintings bring us into the heart of a garden—and a family.

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