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Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking, and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever
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Author
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Susan Warren.
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Publisher
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Bloomsbury
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.5
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6.4
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0.9
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ISBN
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9781596912786
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Pages/Publication Date
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245/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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03037
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Description
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In country fairs and weigh-offs across the country, the search for the Great Pumpkin is serious business to a rowdy crowd of obsessive gardeners competing to grow the world's largest pumpkin. With her tongue only a little bit in her cheek, Wall Street Journal editor Susan Warren follows the tumultuous 2006 season through the progress of father-and-son team Dick and Ron Wallace, who strive to bring in the world's first 1500-pound pumpkin despite the ever-present dangers of root rot, foaming stump slime, marauding deer and groundhogs, and strained marriages. "The final chapters are so tense, and so well-written, that, like with a mystery novel, I covered up the last page so I wouldn't be able to see how it ended. Yes, in a book about pumpkins. You'll never look at your jack-o'-lantern the same way again."—Philadelphia City Paper
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