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Cover of Tom's Midnight Garden

Tom's Midnight Garden

Philippa Pearce (1958)

SubgenreChildren's Fantasy
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingG
Pages229 (Quick Read (<250))
SettingSpace
CSM age8
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Content levels

ViolenceNone
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

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Positive tags

HeartwarmingFriendshipAdventureMystery

Hero archetypes

Coming-of-Age Hero

Protagonist archetypes

Time-Displaced

Tropes

Time TravelFish out of WaterComing of AgeHaunted LocationQuestFound Family

Themes

Time and MemoryFriendship Across GenerationsChildhood WonderLonelinessGrowing upConnection and Belonging

Synopsis

Daytime life for Tom is dull, but each night he participates in the lives of the former inhabitants of the old house in which he is spending an enforced vacation.

Tags

Children's FantasyHistorical FictionGentle MysteryTime Slip