2. The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring

3. crops Now that Spring has arrived, the farmer is busy planting his crops. One day after the teacher had been talking about birds that were blue and his mama had started talking about crops coming up, King Shabazz decided he had just had enough.

4. plants grown for food or to sell to make money

5. decorated The wedding reception hall looked lovely, decorated with twinkling lights and pretty flowers. They passed the Church of the Solid Rock with high windows all decorated and pretty.

6. decorated made beautiful by adding fancy things and frills

7. vacant Just after they passed some apartments King Shabazz and Tony Pulito came to a vacant lot.

8. vacant The warehouse looked as though it had been vacant for years.

9. vacant empty; abandoned

10. mound The wheels were gone and so were the doors, but it was dark red and sitting high on a dirt mound in the middle of the lot. The catcher walked toward the pitchers mound, a slightly raised area of ground on a baseball field.

11. mound small hill or pile of dirt, rocks, or other material

12. patch He looked down and saw a patch of little yellow pointy flowers, growing in the middle of short, spiky green leaves. A large empty patch stood out from the full green lawn.

13. patch an area different from what's around it

14. whisper shout slowly shades