The Doll In The Garden By Mary Downing Hahn

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The Doll in the Garden, by Mary Downing Hahn, is a novel with a mysterious garden that has many secrets. This book is about a young girl that experiences something unusual but amazing. The setting takes place at Ashley’s new home in Monkton Mills. The setting affects it characters because if Ashley would have never moved, she could have never found the secrets in the garden. The text states, “As Louisa had told me, he knew the way to her world and back again to mine.”
This story kept me involved from the beginning to the end. One reason is because in every chapter she found out something new, and what she is seeing and hearing isn’t just a dream. On page 146, Ashley thought, “Had I been dreaming after all? I shook my head.” The author uses

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