One sad day, Grandmother died. “You cannot stay here,” said the man who owned the land. “I have a family ready to move in.” Young Concepcion has no choice but to move to the [barrio] of the nearby city. There she meets children who, in order to survive, must steal the good they eat. But Concepcion has a plan. With back-breaking work she plants a garden amid the rubble, using her grandmother’s legacy: a handful of chili, corn and bean seeds. But her garden is destroyed. Will she have the strength to begin again? Published in collaboration with UNICEF Canada, A Handful of Seeds offers a message of hope on behalf of the thirty million children worldwide who live on the streets of their cities.

Related: Latin America, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction

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• ISBN: 9780531094983
• Authors: Garay, Luis; Hughes, Monica
• Illustrator: Garay, Luis
• Published: 1996, Orchard Books (NY)
• Themes: Children, choice, Family, Grandmother, homeless children, Hope, Journey, Plants, Poverty, sense of belonging, Survive
• Descriptors: Latin America, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction
• No. of pages: 32