The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier is a Junior Library Guild Selection, Amazon “Best Book” for May 2014, and an ABA “Indie Next” pick. It received stars from Kirkus, School Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, and VOYA. It is a wonderful book that will appeal to boys and girls. It is a story of Irish orphans, an evil tree, and how a family is rescued and restored. It is rich with suspense and chills. It is so much more, though. The lessons about what people want and what they need are skillf