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Author Auxier, Jonathan, author.

Title The Night Gardener : a scary story / by Jonathan Auxier.

Publication Info. New York : Amulet Books, [2015]
©2014

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Teen  TEEN NUTMEG 2017 AUXIER    Check Shelf
 Avon Free Public Library - Teen  TEEN NUTMEG 2017 AUXIER c.2  Check Shelf
 Avon Free Public Library - Teen  TEEN NUTMEG 2017 AUXIER c.5  DUE 09-19-22 Billed
 Avon Free Public Library - Teen  TEEN NUTMEG 2017 AUXIER c.7  Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Teen  YA HORROR AUXIER    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  MIDDLE GRADE AUXIER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Nutmeg Collection  YA AUXIER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Nutmeg Collection  YA AUXIER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Young Adult  YA AUXIER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Young Adult  YA AUXIER    Check Shelf

Description 350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note Nutmeg Book Award nominee, Grade 7-8 Teen, 2017.
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.
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.
Audience Middle School.
Subject Ghost stories.
Household employees -- Juvenile fiction.
Siblings -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Juvenile fiction.
Dwellings -- Juvenile fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
Ghosts -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Dwellings -- Fiction.
Horror stories.
JUVENILE FICTION / Horror & Ghost Stories.
JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic.
JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings.
Blessing and cursing. (OCoLC)fst00834275
Brothers and sisters. (OCoLC)fst00839671
Dwellings. (OCoLC)fst00899978
Ghost stories. (OCoLC)fst00942396
Household employees. (OCoLC)fst01730010
Orphans. (OCoLC)fst01048433
Storytelling. (OCoLC)fst01134169
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN 9781419715310 (paperback)
1419715313 (paperback)
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