The Night Gardener. Parents need to know that The Night Gardener is a dark, scary horror story that delivers satisfying chills along with thoughtful messages on courage, empathy, and the power of storytelling. It follows the paths of Molly and Kip, two orphaned Irish siblings who procure servant positions in a creepy old mansion that's been overtaken by a large, dark tree which has grown into it.
The Night Gardener is Asian, the child pale-skinned, the neighborhood warmly multicultural. An economic text punctuated with commas, questions, and ellipses leads readers. One day, William discovers that the tree outside his window has been sculpted into a wise owl.
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The story is simple, but very sweet. The Night Gardener (Book) : Auxier, Jonathan : 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. Soon, William's gray little town is full of color.