
In this fourth book in the Vanderbeekers series, return to 141st Street with Isa, Jessie, Oliver, Hyacinth, and Laney as they attempt to make their neighborhood a better place, one heartfelt plan at a time. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat.īut when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden’s shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation.

When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlemin spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer.


New York Times bestseller Karina Yan Glaser brings everyone’s favorite Harlem family back in this poignant fourth novel in the “delightful and heartwarming” ( New York Times Book Review) Vanderbeekers series. Return to Harlem's 'wildly entertaining' family in this funny, heartwarming sequel.
