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Two boys set out in their canoe to solve a riverside mystery in this exciting story by bestselling author, Philippa Pearce.

65th anniversary edition of this award-winning, timeless classic about Tom's adventures in his secret, midnight garden.

New edition of a moving and intriguing story about a girl's determination to solve a hidden family mystery, written by the author of Tom's Midnight Garden.

Tom è costretto a passare te vacanze estive dagli zii: suo fratello Peter è malato di morbillo e deve stare in quarantena. Gli si prospettano interminabili giorni di noia e solitudine: gli zii abitano in un piccolissimo appartamento senza giardino. Tom è ormai rassegnato al suo destino quando una notte, nel silenzio della casa, sente l'antica pendola dell'ingresso battere la tredicesima ora. Tom scende al piano inferiore per vedere quel bizzarro orologio, ma viene attratto dalla porta sul retro. Lì, di fronte a lui, si apre un immenso, magico giardino, laddove di giorno si trova soltanto uno squallido cortile pieno di bidoni dell'immondizia. Il giardino di mezzanotte è magnifico, rigoglioso e pieno di piante, profumi, animali, nascondigli da costruire e alberi da scalare, insieme a Hatty, una bambina vittoriana coraggiosa e indipendente, Tom vivrà mille incredibili avventure, per arrivare infine a risolvere il mistero che avvolge il giardino e la sua compagna di giochi.

Emma is happy to sleep in her Cousin Annie's old attic bedroom when staying with her great-aunt Win. But when bedtime comes, she starts feeling nervous. Her brother, Joe, insists that the room is haunted. Could he be right?

"Sid, Peggy and Amy adore the two gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but their mother detests them. A major family battle results, and it's clear life is never going to be quite the same again. But after a near fatal encounter between Bubble and Ginger the cat, Mrs Sparrow begins to see that life with 2 gerbils might not be so bad after all."

Tom dislikes the thought of staying in a tiny flat in a dull house with his aunt and uncle, but when he arrives he finds mystery and adventure every night when he goes outside into a beautiful garden and plays with a lovely orphan girl. The girl is the old landlady of the house; the garden is part of her dreams of the past.

When Bet is first asked to go into the meadow and read a passage aloud from a book - apparently to no-one - she wonders why. But then she realises that her audience is a little mole, who listens attentively. This isn't just any mole. This mole can speak, he is more than 300 years old and he has an amazing tale to tell.

What is it like to be a fly on the wall in our neighbours' houses? With these eight gently humorous stories, Philippa Pearce lifts the lid from the neighbours' houses and shows us the lives within. From the author of Tom's Midnight Garden and A Dog So Small.

Lying awake at night, Tom hears the old grandfather clock downstairs strike . . . eleven . . . twelve . . . thirteen . . . Thirteen! When Tom gets up to investigate, he discovers a magical garden. A garden that everyone told him doesn't exist. A garden that only he can enter . . . A Carnegie-Medal-winning modern classic that's magically timeless.