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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2017 | Middle School
Gr 4–6—World War II hasn't affected 12-year-old Franny's rustic, idyllic life on Vancouver Island, BC. While her mother Sina sculpts, she writes and explores the many gardens tended by her father, Old Tom. But there is one garden he forbids Franny to enter: the ancient night garden. 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. Contented Franny has little interest in wishes until the family's peace is disrupted: a neighbor suddenly leaves her three...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2017
Horvath's latest novel--set on Vancouver Island in WWII--is a madcap comedy featuring a host of eccentric characters, a UFO, a ghost, a magic garden, and a missing top-secret military airplane. As usual, Horvath embraces the chaos, coming out the other side with everything making sense, somehow. Nascent writer Franny lives with her adoptive parents Sina and Old Tom on a small, remote farm. Their peaceful life is turned upside-down when they take in neighbor Crying Alice's three...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
Horvath's latest novel--set on Vancouver Island in WWII--is a madcap comedy featuring a host of eccentric characters, a UFO, a ghost, a magic garden, and a missing top-secret military airplane. As usual, Horvath embraces the chaos, coming out the other side with everything making sense, somehow. Nascent writer Franny lives with her adoptive parents Sina and Old Tom on a small, remote farm. Their peaceful life is turned upside-down when they take in neighbor Crying Alice's three...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
