Description
From Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning author Polly Horvath is this magical middle-grade novel about a garden that grants wishes. It is World War II, and Franny and her parents, Sina and Old Tom, enjoy a quiet life on a farm on Vancouver Island. Franny writes, Sina sculpts, and Old Tom tends to their many gardens–including the ancient, mysterious night garden. Their peaceful life is interrupted when their neighbor, Crying Alice, begs Sina to watch her children while she goes to visit her husband at the military base because she suspects he’s up to no good. Soon after the children move in, letters arrive from their father that suggest he’s about to do something to change their lives; and appearances from a stubborn young cook, UFOs, hermits, and ghosts only make life stranger. Can the forbidden night garden that supposedly grants everyone one wish help them all out of trouble? And if so, at what cost? The Night Garden is a poignant and hilarious story from acclaimed children’s author Polly Horvath.
From Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning author Horvath (“Everything on a Waffle” comes a magical novel, set during World War II on a farm on Vancouver Island, about a garden that grants wishes.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Juvenile Fiction
Humorous Stories, Juvenile Fiction
Edition: Lifestyles
Keywords: Humorous Stories, Juvenile Fiction
