The father remembers an older man that lived in his neighborhood who always grew a big garden. A part of my ten year old brain judged it unsafe to eat something that hadn't been bought at the grocery store. The boys ended up distracted by the baseball sized tomatoes and started having a tomato fight which ended up destroying the old man's garden. When Home: The story is that he and his friends ruined his neighbor’s garden by rooting up and throwing tomatoes and vegetables at each other.

When a careless act of destruction takes place, amends need to be made, and this leads to a series of events resulting in lasting friendships and the creation of time-honored family traditions.

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In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Tomatoes, peppers, onions, marigold, and zinnias grow in neat, straight rows...and every spring my father tells me about Mr. Bellavista and the summer my father was ten. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. This story drives home how our actions effect other people and is done in a very sweet way. Furthermore, the old Italian man taught him how to do gardening.

Tomatoes, peppers, onions, marigolds, and zinnias grow in neat, straight rows. The next year he didn't plant a garden. In this story, a child retells the story of her father's youth when an impromptu baseball game gets out of hand and some unthinking boys end up destroying an old man's garden. It is an annual thing they do, and every year the father tells the girl of the summer he was ten. Upgrade below and print everything you need to deliver balanced literacy instruction using popular and award-winning children's literature. Determine the central idea of the text (honesty, friendship, taking responsibility of negative actions) and analyze the development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. To see what your friends thought of this book. The young version of the father lived next door to a man named Mr. Bellavista. It's nice to see a story where the main character decides for himself to make things right, rather than having punishment imposed from outside.

The father felt guilty when he saw the look on Mr. Bellavista's face at his destroyed garden, but none of the boys apologized.

This is a book that teaches a lesson on a children's level. Her Very sweet book for boys and girls! When the old man moves into a nursing home, the boy continues to plant the garden and brings him flowers from it.

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Vivid watercolor illustrations accompany the text. Why did the father have trouble talking to Mr. Bellavista after he ruined the garden? It might seem on first reading that THE SUMMER MY FATHER WAS TEN is about the mystery of death, but that's only part of it. The Summer My Father Was Ten CONCEPTS Justice Honesty Respect OBJECTIVES Pat Brisson 1998 Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press SUMMARY When a lost baseball ends up in Mr. Bellavista's garden and a tomato fight ensues, a young boy faces a dilemma involving honesty, justice, and reconciliation.