Tom's Midnight Garden
by Philippa Pearce

Tom Long is furious at being sent away from home during the holiday just because his brother has measles. Staying at his aunt's flat in a stuffy house, in a bedroom with bars on the window, there seems to be nothing to do, no one to play with and nowhere to go. Then everything changes; lying awake long after bedtime, he hears the old grandfather clock ticking away and chiming out the hours. "Hurry!" the house seems to whisper. Tom gets up in the middle of the night and finds the strange, magical moonlit garden where Hatty plays. A wonderful and mysterious fantasy. (10+)