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Summary Of Seedfolks By Paul Fleishman

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In the book “Seedfolks” By Paul Fleishman, Theres this Vietnamese girl named kim. Kim is only 9 years old she last saw her dad. She was only eight months born after he died. He was a farmer watched his beans break ground and spread and would notice with pleasure. Lived over there in Cleveland heights for eighteen years. Kim was a sad little girl. Their in there city with no work drinking from nine to five. Kim omce saw someone across the street from where she lived something suspicious. Their she found a little girl planting something where she planted hers. All the girl did was water the plants. Kim started noticing it was over 4 days she hasn’t seen her. The poor little girl was afraid of kim. She was just trying to be friendly

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