• Age: 5 to 9
• Grade: k to 4

Mr. and Mrs. Greene get the surprise of a lifetime when they discover a baby girl in their prized pepper patch. Pepper blossoms into a beautiful girl with fiery red hair, emerald eyes and a kind and caring spirit. Aside from her unusual introduction into the world she grows up rather ordinary, with a deep love for gardening and the outdoors. Then one evening in the garden with a simple prick of her finger Pepper realizes that she may not be so ordinary after all. It isn’t until her town his hit with a horrible drought that Pepper realizes she just might have what the townspeople need to overcome their misfortune.

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Danielle Findlay is a School Nutrition Program Coordinator, freelance journalist and children’s book author. She lives with her husband and two children in LaSalle, Ontario, an area rich in agriculture. Danielle has worked advocating for food security issues in her community and teaches her young children about the importance of proper nutrition partly by encouraging them to plant and harvest vegetables from their own backyard garden. She has a particular interest in writing for parents and kids and is inspired by seeing the world through the eyes of her own children.