I've read this book at least 3 times so it won't surprise you that I highly recommend it to anyone!! Especially girls. For some reason girls seem to like it more--Probably because the main character is a girl.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a classic that I plan on reading to my children. The main character is Mary, a sour, spoiled little girl who cannot understand when everything doesn't go her way. After her parents deaths in India, she is sent to live with her uncle in England. England is nothing like India and she has to adjust to a different culture and climate as well as learning the world is larger than herself.
Mary becomes friends with sour old gardener Ben Weatherstaff, the robin redbreast, Dickon--the boy who can talk to animals, and eventually even with a child more spoiled and sour than even she was.
The book is one of wonder, of mystery, of taking life as it is and making it better. I loved it even more this read through than I did as a little girl.
This book belongs on every little girl's bookshelf (and pretty much everyone else's too!)
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