![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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