Holy Caudill, what's with all the scary books this year?! 
 The Night Gardener gives me the creeps! I'll admit to waking up, and thinking there was someone looming over my bed, and it was unpleasant! 
 I didn't like the wordiness of this novel, often I felt a point could be made with a lot fewer pages (or chapters!) 
 However, I was rooting for Kip, and I wanted to figure out Hester, and I needed Polly to be okay. So I'd say, all in all, a pretty good book. 
 I'd recommend to children who like scary books, fairy tales (there was a great underlying story telling vibe throughout) who are in 6th to 8th grade.