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Scholastic Classics: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (author) (UK edition)

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Suitable for 11 - 14 years

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When Mary Lennox is sent from India to live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor, everyone finds her a very angry, spoilt little child. To Mary the great house is scary and unfamiliar, full of dark corridors and strange noises.

Then Mary hears about a garden, one that has been locked up and hidden away for years and years. And when Mary finds the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine…

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Catalogue number

8062 in Schools Catalogue 2024–25 and 2543 in Education Catalogue 2023–24

Series

Scholastic Classics

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407196121

Date published

September 5th, 2019

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  • 320 pages

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New

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Author/Illustrator

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester but when her father died Frances’s mother emigrated with her sons and daughters to Tennessee in the United States. Life there was harsh and they were quite poor but the young Frances would entertain herself and her siblings with stories. And then in 1868, at the age of eighteen, she went out with her sister to pick grapes and made enough money from that job to buy paper and stamps. She wrote out a romantic tale and sent it off to a magazine. Marvellously, her story was accepted and from that day forward she became the breadwinner in her family, writing up to six stories a month.

When she married a man called Swan Burnett in 1872, she kept up her writing. Frances’s two sons, Lionel and Vivian, would sleep beneath her desk as toddlers. It was unusual for a woman to earn her own money and support her family in the way that Frances did so people in nineteenth-century England and America were very surprised. Many newspapers and magazines were interested in her private life and wrote about her, much like they do about celebrities today.

In 1890, something very sad happened and Frances‘s son, Lionel, died at the age of sixteen. When she wrote about Colin in The Secret Garden Frances might have been thinking about her own son and wishing that his sickness could have been cured. Her other son, Vivian, lived and Frances once made him a real velvet suit. The sight of him in his smart suit inspired her to write her book Little Lord Fauntleroy.

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  1. Notgonnatellyou
    on 3 December 2021

    This book has got my attention

    This book is amazing . it’s is my fav book ever and it has caught my attention

    5out of 5

  2. Edward
    on 1 July 2020

    Magical

    This book caught my imagination taking me from India to Yorkshire the characters really come to life and the story is magical

    4out of 5

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  1. PN
    on 7 November 2020

    This book is full of mystery and fantastic adventures that a little girl, Mary Lennox finds out that there is a secret garden is in her uncle’s mason…

    5out of 5

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