or that she could truly escape into a time-portal in the garden behind her house. (I can't remember the name of that book, but it was one of my very favorites.)
perhaps?
THANK YOU-- I think that really may be it!! It's the same kind of story as in the classic movie
Portrait of Jennie. My absolute favorite book as a child.
Other favorites from about that same period of time include
Gone Away Lake, and
The House of Thirty Cats. (About 8yo, I think.) There aren't too many books that I can actually stand to read over and over, and never have been. Those are among them, however.
Someone else mentioned
A Summer to Die; I also remember that being one of those books that I found profoundly moving, but that nobody else I know seems to have ever even heard of.
What a
wonderful thread this is.
