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The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   Three bored children walk into a hidden garden

   Gerald, Kathleen, and Jimmy cannot go home for the holidays because their cousin has measles. They are sent to Kathleen's empty school, where a French teacher called Mademoiselle lets them spend the next day in the woods.

   They take the Salisbury Road and choose turns at random until they are lost. In a hedge Gerald leans on a loose stone and finds a hole in the bank. He strikes a match and crawls in, and the others follow through a cave to a marble terrace above a lake with swans, deer, and white statues. A rose garden, a yew maze, and towers lie beyond.

   Here the children split in a way that runs through the whole book. Kathleen and Gerald choose to believe, while Jimmy says magic ended with steam engines and telephones. In the maze a red thread leads them to a lady asleep on a stone bench.

   Belief is a choice, and the children make it on purpose.

2. 2

   A sleeping princess wakes, and the game begins

   On the bench lies a lady in pink and gold brocade, with rings on every finger.

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3. 3

   Invisibility brings a new friend and many problems

   Mabel fears going home, so Gerald suggests that she come with them for tea and a council.

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4. 4

   Gerald turns detective and meets the night garden

   Invisible Gerald decides to become a detective.

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5. 5

   A borrowed ring and a play for Mademoiselle

   The missing ring has gone to Eliza, who borrowed it to astonish her gentleman friend.

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6. 6

   Paper people come alive and ask for a hotel

   The first creature Gerald meets in the hall has nothing inside its coat but a crossbar and a glove stuffed with handkerchiefs.

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7. 7

   Jimmy wishes to be rich and loses himself

   Wearing the ring, Jimmy goes into the pine woods with the old creature, and they talk about money.

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8. 8

   A giant, a statue, and a night with the gods

   Back at the castle Mabel declares that the ring makes the wearer four yards high.

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9. 9

   Wishes always carry a cost nobody expects

   Nobody in this book wishes for something wicked.

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10. 10

    A chatty storyteller keeps the magic close to home

    The narrator is a character of her own.

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