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The Monster Garden

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The Monster Garden	comment	The Monster Garden is a 1988 middle grade novel by Vivien Alcock.Frankie Stein's father is a molecular biologist who works in genetic engineering. When Frankie's older brother David steals a test tube of grey goo thrown out by their father's laboratory, Frankie makes him give her some. Frankie's blob of goo grows into a sentient creature, which Frankie and a group of friends care for while hiding it from adults.
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The Monster Garden / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Frankie's father is distant and aloof, and mostly leaves Frankie and David to be raised by the housekeeper, Mrs Drake. David thinks he's not as good in his father's eyes as Ben and Mike, and Frankie thinks her father is a chauvinist who didn't want a daughter. Both of them hope to earn his approval by conducting experiments on the goo.
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The Monster Garden / int_1c3f4853	type	Put Off Their Food
The Monster Garden / int_1c3f4853	comment	Put Off Their Food: The day Monnie starts growing and moving around, Frankie is served green jello for dessert. She can't bring herself to eat any.
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The Monster Garden / int_1fb4d915	type	The Stool Pigeon
The Monster Garden / int_1fb4d915	comment	The Stool Pigeon: Frankie tries to avert this. She thinks her best friend Hazel Brent is too chatty and frivolous to be trusted with Monnie's secret, so instead she goes to her more serious classmate Julia Hobson and Julia's brother John for help, even though she doesn't really like Julia. She ends up telling Hazel anyway because she feels bad for excluding her. Hazel turns out to be trustworthy, but Julia tells Frankie's father everything because she thinks Monnie might be dangerous. Terrified Monnie will be taken back to the laboratory and experimented on, Frankie runs away with it to Mendicote Woods, a forest with a summer house and a creek that she visited as a young child, where she hopes Monnie will be safe.
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The Monster Garden / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
The Monster Garden / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: As a teenager, Frankie goes to the mouth of the stream where she last saw Monnie years ago. Then Monnie climbs out of the water and walks towards her. Monnie has been living with a dolphin pod for the last few years and has now reached its adult height, which towers over Frankie. The two share a brief reunion before Monnie swims away again.
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The Monster Garden / int_4e351021	type	The B Grade
The Monster Garden / int_4e351021	comment	The B Grade: David came in second in physics last term. He could barely look his father in the eye afterwards.
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The Monster Garden / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Monster Garden / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: After Monnie swims away, Alf gives Frankie two rabbits. She loves them, but they aren't the same.
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The Monster Garden / int_65244998	type	Lightning Can Do Anything
The Monster Garden / int_65244998	comment	Lightning Can Do Anything: Frankie leaves her lump of goo in a saucer by an open window and goes to bed. That night there's a violent thunderstorm. The next morning, the saucer is blackened and sooty, and the lump of goo has octupled in size and started moving around the room.
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The Monster Garden / int_707193f6	type	Aloof Big Brother
The Monster Garden / int_707193f6	comment	Aloof Big Brother: David treats Frankie like a stupid little kid when he's not ignoring her. Frankie thinks it's because he feels inferior to their older brothers Ben and Mike, who are both at Cambridge, and needs someone to look down on.
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The Monster Garden / int_b76f6cb2	type	Little Stowaway
The Monster Garden / int_b76f6cb2	comment	Little Stowaway: Frankie and Monnie hide under a tarp on a flatbed truck to travel to Mendicote Woods.
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The Monster Garden / int_b7c312ff	type	Cacophony Cover-Up
The Monster Garden / int_b7c312ff	comment	Cacophony Cover Up: While Alf is making a hutch for Monnie, Frankie plays her radio loud so her father won't hear the noise.
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The Monster Garden / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Monster Garden / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: How Frankie's mother died.
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The Monster Garden / int_ee19d278	type	Blob Monster
The Monster Garden / int_ee19d278	comment	Blob Monster: Monnie first comes to life as an amorphous blob with two spots for eyes. It moves around and grabs things by creating small temporary tentacles. It becomes less bloblike as it grows larger and models its body plan on the humans, forming a head, limbs, hands, feet, and digits. By the time it reaches adulthood, it seems to have lost its shape-changing abilities.
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The Monster Garden / int_efd11fe3	type	A Dog Named "Dog"
The Monster Garden / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": Frankie names the monster "Monnie".
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The Monster Garden / int_f50b1e05	type	Shoo the Dog
The Monster Garden / int_f50b1e05	comment	Shoo the Dog: As Monnie's height approaches one meter, it starts to shed its gelatinous coating, revealing skin that quickly dehydrates if it doesn't get to swim regularly. Frankie knows it can't stay in her garden for much longer. Just outside Mendicote Woods, some boys start throwing rocks at Monnie. By the time Frankie chases them away, Monnie is gone. Frankie runs into the woods and finds signs that Monnie has been near the mouth of the creek. She swims into the sea to look for Monnie, but accidentally goes too far from shore, loses strength, and passes out. Monnie carries her back to shore before swimming away forever.
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