Magic for Marigold [Paperback]

<p><strong>You Usually Hear Marigold Before You See Her. Her Laughter Always Seems to Run Ahead.</strong></p><p>Marigold Lesley doesn't think it strange at all to hold fascinating conversations with her cat. She also sees nothing wrong with having an invisible best friend who lives in the orchard. But as Marigold starts to get older, her family is hoping she'll be a little less fanciful and a little more sensible.</p><p>Yet how is it possible to be sensible when you meet a girl who claims to be a princess? Or when someone mistakes you for a girl who died? For Marigold, every day brings a bit of magic—and she wouldn't have it any other way. </p><p><strong>What Readers are Saying:</strong></p><p>"Wonderful! You will love Marigold."</p><p>"This was my favorite L.M. Montgomery book as a kid."</p><p>"I loved this book. I found myself wanting to be in Marigold's world...it sounded so wonderful."</p><p><b>Chapter 1</b></p><p>What's in a Name?</p><p>1</p><p>Once upon a time-which, when you come to think of it, is really the only proper way to begin a story-the only way that really smacks of romance and fairyland-all the Harmony members of the Lesley clan had assembled at Cloud of Spruce to celebrate Old Grandmother's birthday as usual. Also to name Lorraine's baby. It was a crying shame, as Aunt Nina pathetically said, that the little darling had been in the world four whole months without a name. But what could you do, with poor dear Leander dying in that terribly sudden way just two weeks before his daughter was born and poor Lorraine being so desperately ill for weeks and weeks afterwards? Not very strong yet, for that matter. And there was tuberculosis in her family, you know.</p><p>Aunt Nina was not really an aunt at all-at least, not of any Lesley. She was just a cousin. It was the custom of the LlsW