The Secret Garden

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With a new movie coming in 2020, its time to rediscover Frances Hodgson Burnetts classic story of a little girl, a mysterious hidden garden, and the healing power of nature.

When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncles great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. And at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors.

The gardens surrounding the large property are Marys only escape. Then, Mary discovers a secret garden, surrounded by walls and locked with a missing key. With the help of two unexpected companions, Mary discovers a way inand becomes determined to bring the garden back to life.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (18491924) was born in Manchester, England, but moved to America as a teenager.A gifted writer from childhood, Burnett took to writing as a means of supporting her family, creating stories forLadys Book,Harpers Bazaar, and other magazines. Though she began writing novels for adults, she gained lasting success writing for children. She is best known forLittle Lord Fauntleroy(18551856),A Little Princess(1905), andThe Secret Garden(1911).

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968,From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerwon the Newbery Medal andJennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabethwas named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again forThe View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books areSilent to the Bone,The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, andThe Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World.