num_pages: 272
description: Dig in to this middle-grade fantasy featuring a horticulturally minded princess a beautiful but evil witch and a magpie with a shameful secret.Princess Adela is not a typical princess. Shes neither particularly beautiful nor particularly graceful and shed rather spend her days digging new plots for her garden than listening to teatime gossip. But when her friend Garth is invited to a garden party hosted by Lady Hortensia  whose beauty is said to be rivaled only by the loveliness of her gardens  Adela cant resist coming along even if it means stuffing herself into a too-tight dress and donning impractical shoes. But the moment Adela sets eyes on Hortensias garden she knows something is amiss. Every single flower is in bloom  in the middle of October! Not only that there is a talking magpie flitting about the garden and stealing the guests jewels. Is it possible that Hortensia is a witch and the magpie an enchanted prince? And what of the flowers themselves? Will Adela get to the root of the mystery and nip trouble in the bud before its too late?
language: English
title: Garden Princess
publisher: Candlewick Press