Best Children's Books of the Year 2013, Bank Street College
2013 Growing Good Kids - Excellence in Children's Literature Award
2013-2014 Macy's Multicultural Collection of Children's Literature
2012 Children's Agriculture Book of the Year, Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation
2016 Agriculture Book of the Year, American Farm Bureau Foundation

Maya loves contests, so she is excited when her teacher announces they will plant a school garden like Thomas Jefferson's garden at Monticello--and they'll have a "First Peas to the Table" contest, just like Jefferson and his neighbors had each spring. Maya plants her pea seeds with a secret head start--found in Jefferson's Garden Book--and keeps careful notes in her garden journal. But her friend Shakayla has plans of her own for the contest.