By Frances Hodgson Burnett

Blurb By: Maya

The Secret Garden is a wonderful book about a sour and spoiled nine-year old  girl named Mary Lennox. Sadly, her parents die and she has to go and start a new life at her uncle’s gloomy and tedious mansion on the England moors. Mary has no one to talk to or play with at the mansion. She can’t explore inside, but when she gets the permission to go out and look at the gardens she discovers a secretive and concealed door that leads to a magnificent garden. Mary looks at the garden and notices that almost everything is dead. But is it? Can she fix it? On the route to re-nourishing the secret garden she hears an unfamiliar cry in the mansion. It sounds like a child’s cry. She looks in the door and it turns out that a boy around her age was making the cry. It incredibly turns out that the boy is Collin Craven, in other words Mary’s uncle’s son. Mary didn‘t know that she had a cousin. Unfortunately, Collin is a very ill boy with an incredibly high temper and a very high chance of dying. He hates it when people look at him but he doesn‘t mind Mary. Later on in the story Mary shows him the magnificent ways of life and how you should embrace life not push it away.

I enjoyed this touching story. You never know what will happen next and it leaves you on a cliff hanger after every chapter. My only problem with this book was that it was hard to understand the language that they spoke. It is a old English accent that can be hard to follow. So anyone who is a strong reader or who loves a touching and brilliant story should read this book.