Burnett, Frances Hodgson, — The Secret Garden.

NY, Harper Trophy, (1987). 1st Harper ed. VG PB. ItT was the sweetest, most mysterious looking place any one could imagine. The high walls that shut it in were covered with. stems of roses so thick that they matted together. No wonder it is still Mary whispered. I am the first person who has spoken in here for ten years. When orphaned Mary Lennox, sickly and lonely and cross comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets Down a coridor of empty rooms she hears someone crying in the night. Outside, she meets Dikon, a magical boy who can charm the wild animals and birds of the countryside. And a robin Mary has befriended shows her the way to a walled, locked garden that has been completely forgotten fo years and years. Is everything within the garden dead, or can Mary make it grow again?.