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Author:

Auxier, Jonathan, author.

Title:

The night gardener : a scary story / by Jonathan Auxier.

Publisher:

Amulet Books,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Household employees--Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling--Juvenile fiction.
Blessing and cursing--Juvenile fiction.
Dwellings--Juvenile fiction.
Ghost stories
Household employees--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Storytelling--Fiction.
Blessing and cursing--Fiction.
Dwellings--Fiction.
Horror tales.

Contents:

pt. 1. Arrivals. Storyteller at the crossroads -- The silent trees -- Miss Penny -- The help -- Portrait of a lady -- The figure in the fog -- Pit and pockets -- Master of the house -- The room at the top of the stairs -- Footsteps -- Chamber pots -- The stationery box -- A visit from Fig and Stubbs -- Catch as catch can -- The other thing -- The garden in the woods -- The night man -- A rude awakening -- Roots -- Behind the door -- pt. 2. Pursuits. Special delivery -- Sweets -- Doctor Crouch -- Cold hands, warm heart -- The pallor -- Horse apples -- Ichor -- Asleep -- To market -- A story bought, a story sold -- The legend of the Night Gardener -- Fruit -- Collapse -- Leeches and lizards -- A spirited debate -- Traps -- Camera obscura -- Shears -- The broken bough -- pt. 3. Departures. The last story -- Alone in the dark -- Return to the Sourwoods -- Body of evidence -- Flight -- Unwelcome guests -- Trust -- Comeuppance -- Hide-and-go-seek -- Lamp oil -- Moonlight -- The hero and the damsel -- Courage -- The conflagration -- Ashes -- What happened next -- Storyteller at the crossroads.

Summary:

Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.

ISBN:

1419715313 (paperback)
9781419715310 (paperback)

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