The Secret Garden
By Francis Hodgson Burnett
336 pages in my edition
This novel set in England, includes many characters such as Mary Lennox, Colin Craven, and Archibald Craven. This story is about a spoiled girl who goes to live with her rich uncle when her parents die. Things are a definite change for her and slowly she takes interests in the outdoors. She meets manny people like Collin Craven a child who has basically given up the will to live, believing he is doomed to be a hunchback like his father. Mary reprimands him and takes matters into her own hands. She has all kinds of adventures that include strange sounds at night, funny accents, and a locked garden.
