Behind an ordinary house, past the fence and the swing set, lies a whole other world — Ba's garden, grown leaf by leaf, year by year. In this warm bilingual picture book, a girl named Mai spends a summer among her father's fruit trees — mango and guava, star fruit and longan, a dragon-fruit flower that blooms for a single night. As she learns the Vietnamese names for each fruit, she discovers that what her family grows can't be found in any store: it's a little piece of home, carried across an ocean and tended with love. A tender story about family, food, and heritage — with a glossary of Vietnamese fruit and family words. Ages 4–8.