# The China Garden

**Author:** Liz Berry
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 1994
**Page count:** 285
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780380732289`
**ISBN-10:** `0380732289`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-china-garden
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

After college Clare moves with her mother from London to a rural home where her psychic ability helps unravel the past and where she searches for something called the Benison.

## Themes

- mothers and daughters
- extrasensory perception
- england, fiction
- extrasensory perception, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1998-1999 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1998-1999 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1998-1999 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1998-1999 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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