Download or read book Tom's Midnight Garden written by Philippa Pearce and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tom is sent to his aunt's house for the summer he resigns himself to weeks of boredom. Lying awake one night he listens to the grandfather clock in the hall strike every hour. Eleven . . . Twelve . . . Thirteen. Thirteen! Tom rushes down the stairs and opens the back door. There, awaiting him, is a beautiful garden. A garden that shouldn't exist. And there are children in the garden too - are they ghosts? Or is it Tom who is really the ghost . . .