This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.
There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 1992 by HarperCollins .
Lena Coakley is the author of Witchlanders and Worlds of Ink and Shadow . She concentrated in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and now lives in Toronto, Canada. To learn more, visit the author online at lenacoakley. com. Jaime Zollars is inspired by fairy tales, Flemish painters, and flea market photographs. Among other things, she is an illustrator of children's books and book covers. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina. Philippa Pearce was a beloved children's writer. Her titles include Here Comes Tod, Minnow on the Say, The Battle of Bubble and Squeak (Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award) and the classic Tom's Midnight Garden, for which she was awarded the Carnegie Medal. Philippa passed away in 2006.
This book contains the following story:
Tom's Midnight Garden
When Tom is sent to stay at his aunt and uncle's house for the summer, he resigns himself to endless weeks of boredom. As he lies awake in his bed he hears the grandfather clock downstairs strike . . .eleven . . . twelve . . . thirteen . . . Thirteen! Tom races down the stairs and out the back door, into a garden everyone told him wasn't there. In this enchanted thirteenth hour, the garden comes alive - but Tom is never sure whether the children he meets there are real or ghosts . . .