She gasped and clasped her hands over her chest. "Her eyes were huge and darkly shadowed, and her skin was milky white. Following a white cat with no shadow, Ashely finds herself outside a house that doesn't exist anymore, and there, in the past, she meets Louisa: When the old landlady happens to see it, she is furious, and demands that Ashley hand it over too her, and Ashley has no choice to obey.īut it's real owner is still waiting for her doll, beyond the overgrown garden. Then, partly buried, they find a box, and in the box is a beautiful old doll, interred there long ago. There she meets Kristi, the little girl who lives next door, and hears from her that this garden is haunted-every summer, a white cat appears, and in the night, a child can be heard crying.But its charms are too great to resist, and soon Ashley and Kristi are busy clearing away weeds, making a place for themselves. Part of the garden is well-cared for, but it is the overgrown tangle of weeds and roses at the other end that draws Ashley. When Ashley and her mother move into the upstairs apartment carved out of a grumpy old lady's house, they are hoping to make a new life for themselves, one without Ashley's dad, who had recently died of cancer. It's also a very fast read, great for a nine year or ten year old girl who likes spooky books. The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story, by Mary Downing Hahn (1989, middle grade, 128pp), is both time slip and ghost story.
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