Title of a Book, Driving me Crazy?
i remember reading this book when i was really young.
It was about a young girl who moves into a new house, and in the back yard their is this patch of garden that has grown in really think, so she crawls into the middle of it where she finds a water fountain & a doll buried next to it.
I also think there is a elderly woman living below her new home, in an apartment and that there is a sick friend involved with the story.
I’ve been told it could be the secret garden but i really don’t think it is but i could be wrong.
On the cover of the book i remember seeing a garden with a water fountain in the middle with a little girl sitting on it. The hole cover was covered in the garden.
This had been driving me nuts for the longest time, anything will help at this point.
"The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story" by Mary Downing Hahn
http://www.amazon.com/Doll-Garden-Ghost-Story/dp/0618873155/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232421775&sr=1-1
"A young girl helps her cantankerous elderly landlord to resolve a childhood act that caused the woman lifelong guilt. Ashley follows a white cat back in time and meets Louisa, a girl who is dying and who longs for her beloved doll–a doll that Ashley and her friend Kristi have found buried in Miss Cooper’s garden. In the end Ashley, Kristi, and Miss Cooper visit Louisa; the woman is able to make am mends with her childhood friend, and Ashley begins to accept her father’s death. Hahn’s portrayal of crotchety Miss Cooper is expertly drawn, giving vivid insight into why she acts and lives as she does. Ashley, her widowed mother, and Kristi are also fully realized characters."
"In this book, Ashley and her mother move to a house in the suburbs to begin a new life after the death of Ashley’s father. The house they move to is a portion of a larger house owned by a cranky older lady (Miss Cooper) who constantly threatens to throw them out. Miss Cooper is particularly after Ashley, who wanders off to explore the garden around the house. During one of her explorations, Ashley and a younger neighbor discover a buried antique doll and Miss Cooper’s buried source of regret. Ashley challenges Miss Cooper’s crankiness in order to return the doll to its orginal owner and learns about making peace with people who have died."