dinner when Grandma spoke up again. “They’re going to declare it too important for one family to take care of on its own, aren’t they?”

Sam shrugged. “Maybe. Maybe not. But if they see how well you’ve cared for it all these years, they’d be fools not to keep you in charge.”

“And how are they going to see that?”

“You’re going to show off your garden and your skills when the reporter Kali found comes by to talk to you tomorrow,” Sam said.

Grandma grunted. “I said I wouldn’t talk to those vultures.”

“Would you rather lose the garden?”

“Do you honestly think talking to this—whoever-it-is—will help?”

Sam wasn’t at all sure it would help, but he took a...

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