TEDDY PARKER like plants and growing things, even though he lived in a city housing project. Although his trials in growing pumpkins in his tiny front yard were many, his crop was a big one!

Teddy and his friends liked the Project home and made the near-by dump their playground. There they built secret hideouts and staged exciting games of cops and robbers.

Because the Project was crowded, families quarreled easily, but when one day a game of cowboys and Indians ended in an accident, the families showed just what good neighbors they could be.

How Teddy and Project children live, work and play makes a warm and sensitive story, one that will broaden the understanding of young readers.

From the dust jacket