Pearce, Philippa

Tom finds himself in the midst of a strange adventure involving a garden that appears only at night and a girl from another time.

Despite their mother's objections, the three Parker children are determined to keep the two gerbils given to them by a friend.

When the clock strikes thirteen, Tom discovers the midnight garden and the mysterious lonely orphan, Hatty, while visiting his aunt and uncle.

When the zoo is unable to keep a miniature elephant, Emily and her parents make a home for it and its monkey friend in their lovely meadow with a river running by.

When a tombstone with her father's name suddenly disappears from the graveyard, Kate, an English school girl, witnesses the unraveling of a mystery surrounding the death of her father.

A collection of eleven stories about ghosts and the supernatural.

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.