The Night Gardener

Label

The Night Gardener

Statement of responsibility

by Jonathan Auxier

Creator

• Auxier, Jonathan.
• Auxier, Jonathan

Subject

• Dwellings -- Fiction.
• Orphans -- Fiction.
• Horror stories.
• Ghosts -- Fiction.
• Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
• Household employees -- Fiction.
• Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
• Storytelling -- Fiction.

Genre

• Fiction.

Language

eng

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

Subject

• Historical fiction
• Ghost stories
• England
• Ghosts
• Household employees
• Immigrants, Irish
• Canadian fiction
• Orphans
• Storytelling
• Horror
• Curses
• Brothers and sisters
• Trees

Genre

• Canadian fiction
• Ghost stories
• Historical fiction
• Horror

Story line

• Plot-driven

Pace

• Fast-paced

Tone

• Scary

Writing style

• Lyrical
• Attention-grabbing
• Dialect-filled

Award

• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2015
• Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children, 2015.
• Carolyn W. Field Award (Pennsylvania), 2015.
• Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (North Dakota) for Juvenile Fiction, 2017.
• International Reading Association Children's Book Award for Intermediate Fiction, 2015.
• Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015.
• School Library Journal Best Books: Fiction, 2014
• Silver Birch Award (Ontario), Fiction, 2015
• TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, 2015.
• Westchester Fiction Award, 2015.
• OLA Best Bets, 2014.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.A9314

LC item number

Nig 2014

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

690

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 6

Target audience

pre adolescent