The children see the night garden as their only chance to help, so they defy Old Tom and test the garden's legend. Contented Franny has little interest in wishes until the family's peace is disrupted: a neighbor suddenly leaves her three children with Sina while she goes off to prevent her husband, a mechanic who works on top-secret military planes, from doing "something terrible." The neighbor kids and Franny become embroiled in the mystery surrounding the mechanic when letters from him arrive containing ominous clues to his intent. Legend says that a person can make one wish while in the night garden and it will come true, but that wish cannot be undone. But there is one garden he forbids Franny to enter: the ancient night garden. While her mother Sina sculpts, she writes and explores the many gardens tended by her father, Old Tom. Gr 4–6-World War II hasn't affected 12-year-old Franny's rustic, idyllic life on Vancouver Island, BC. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. 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. 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. Franny writes, Sina sculpts, and Old Tom tends to their many gardens―including the ancient, mysterious night garden. It is World War II, and Franny and her parents, Sina and Old Tom, enjoy a quiet life on a farm on Vancouver Island. From Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author Polly Horvath is this magical middle-grade novel about a garden that grants wishes.
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