Books like The magic garden by K. R. Cripwell

Fiona, a widowed father’s critical daughter, finds solace in her cousin Julian’s garden. When her father pushes her toward a social life for political gain and she senses Julian’s burgeoning romance, she chooses to step away and discover her own path.

A wealthy young girl spends her youth preparing for the return of a young man she has loved since childhood.

Gabbie And The Magical Garden by Paul Lundy is a portal fantasy/mystery novel appropriate for young readers. Gabbie follows her curiosity that leads her to a gate in a magical garden that opens into a realm, one where dead things come back to life. In the realm, the real and the imagined become one. Anything Gabbie draws manifests before her eyes.Trouble for Gabbie begins when she learns she isn’t the only girl in this world with an overactive imagination. Through no fault of her own, Gabbie is forced into a potentially-lethal game of hide-and-seek, just like the one Josie, a classmate, was playing when she went missing. As Gabbie uses the magical realm to track down Josie, Josie’s own frightened imagination changes the realm around both girls, manifesting plenty of new dangers for Gabbie; dangers she later learns are clues to Josie’s whereabouts. The realm becomes the battle of imagination. Armed with only a drawing pad, pencil, and her own wits, Gabbie must figure out how to use the power of the realm and solve the disappearance of Josie before this awesome and awful world claims them both.

Aoife discovers she is half‑human, half‑Fae and the world she knows is crumbling after her brother’s disappearance. She must follow dream whispers to the Arctic, seek the Brotherhood of Iron, and unlock the Nightmare Clock before her own destiny destroys everything she loves.

When Susan and Josh stumble onto the mysterious garden beside their home, they uncover startling truths about the little old woman who tends it and the magic hidden within its borders.

Four cousins discover a magical thyme bank that sends them on time‑travel adventures—from American rebels to Queen Elizabeth I, even rescuing their childhood parents.

When Jenny suspects her new neighbor Mrs. Matthews of witchcraft, she must decide whether to expose or exorcise her secret in this mystery of small‑town superstition.

Cassie and her mother return to her grandfather’s farm and uncover a hidden family secret while their loved ones battle illness.

The Armitage family faces a series of whimsical challenges—stray unicorns, mishapful magic lessons, and an eviction—to redefine their home in a world where adventure and spellcraft collide.