From Newbery Honor– and National Book Award–winning author Polly Horvath, a magical middle grade novel that features a garden that grants wishes.

It is World War II and Franny Whitekraft lives with her parents, Sina and Old Tom, on a farm on Vancouver Island. Their peaceful life is interrupted when their neighbour, Crying Alice, begs Sina to watch her children while she goes to visit her husband at the military base where he is stationed because she suspects he’s up to no good. Soon after the children move in, letters start to arrive from their father, and the children don’t understand what they mean until it is too late to stop him from doingsomething that threatens to change their whole lives. Can the ancient, forbidden night garden that supposedly grants everyone one wish help? And if it does, at what cost?

POLLY HORVATHis the author of many books for young people, includingThe Night Garden,Everything on a Waffle,The Pepins and Their Problems,The Canning SeasonandThe Trolls. Her numerous awards include the Newbery Honor, the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor and the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children’s Literature. She has also been shortlisted for The Deutscher Jugenliteraturpreis, Germany’s most prestigious literature award. Horvath grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She lives in Metchosin, British Columbia. pollyhorvath.com

Author: Polly HorvathFormat: PaperbackProduct dimensions: 304 pages, 8.25 X 5.5 X 0.75 inPublished: October 16, 2018Publisher:PRH Canada Young ReadersRecommended for ages 9-12.