Available Formats
Classic Starts: The Secret Garden
By (Author) Frances Hodgson Burnett
Abridged by Martha Hailey DuBose
Illustrated by Lucy Corvino
Afterword by Arthur Pober
Sterling Juvenile
Sterling Juvenile
1st March 2005
1st September 2005
United States
Children
Fiction
813.6
Hardback
160
Width 137mm, Height 191mm
Age range 8+
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series:Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete.Classic Startstreats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve all at an incomparable price.
The discovery of a neglected garden transforms the life of a sullen and unloved little girl and everyone around her, too. When the newly orphaned Mary Lennox leaves her native India and arrives at her uncle's mansion in Yorkshire, everything seems strange to her. Then Mary hears of a mysterious garden where no one has set foot in 10 years. With the help of some new friends, she plans to uncover its secrets...and make it blossom once again.