The Haven: A Summer Suspense Mystery (The Summer Suspense Mysteries Book 4)

Though Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote more than forty books, none remains so popular as her miraculous and magical masterpiece, The Secret Garden. Has any story ever dared to begin by calling its heroine, “the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen” and, just a few sentences later, “as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived?” Mary Lennox is the “little pig,” sent to Misselthwaite Manor, on the Yorkshire moors, to live with her uncle after her parents die of cholera. There she discovers her sickly cousin Colin, who is equally obnoxious and imperious. Both love no one because they have never been loved. They are the book’s spiritual secret gardens, needing only the right kind of care to bloom into lovely children.Mary also discovers a literal secret garden, hidden behind a locked gate on her uncle’s estate, neglected for the ten years since Colin’s birth and his mother’s death. Together with a local child named Dickon, Mary and Colin transform the garden into a paradise bursting with life and color. Through their newfound mutual love of nature, they nurture each other, until they are brought back to health and happiness.With Charles Robinson's original illustrations. In this beloved story, readers travel with Mary Lennox, a spoiled and sullen orphan, from colonial India to Misselthwaite Manor, a forbidding estate on the Yorkshire moors. There, in the unlikeliest of places, Mary discovers and helps restore an abandoned garden and, in the process, blossoms herself into a creature of loving kindness. Mary's transformation begins when she meets a no-nonsense housekeeper, a brusque gardener, and a sprightly robin that leads her to the hidden garden. With the help of Dickon, a boy with an almost supernatural affinity for animals and plants, and Colin, her frail cousin, Mary works in secret to bring new life to the old garden. The three friends find their efforts rewarded not only with all the pleasure that blooming flowers bring, but also the blessings of good health and high spirits.Since its initial appearance in 1911, this cherished classic of children's literature by the author of A Little Princess has enchanted readers. Now available in this unabridged, modestly priced edition, The Secret Garden will continue to charm modern readers of all ages. SUMMARY: A spoiled and sickly orphan blossoms into a creature of loving kindness in this unforgettable classic of childhood. At her uncle's forbidding Yorkshire estate, Mary joins with new friends in the restoration of an abandoned garden and discovers the pleasures of blooming flowers, friendship, good health, and high spirits. Fiction,General,England,General & Literary Fiction,Europe,Classics,Juvenile Fiction,Children's Books,Children: Grades 4-6,Ages 9-12 Fiction,YA),People & Places,Family,Yorkshire (England),Nature & the Natural World,Classic fiction (Children's,Family - Orphans & Foster Homes,Social Issues,Orphans,Orphans & Foster Homes,People with disabilities,Gardens,Special Needs,People & Places - Europe

in This Beloved Children's Story, Mary Lennox, An Ill-tempered Orphan Is Sent To Live In England With An Uncle She Has Never Met. While There, She Discovers A Spoiled Cousin And A Long-abandoned Garden. Working To Restore The Garden, She Finds She Also Cures Her Own Ill Temper And Reforms Her Cousin As Well

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[neglected Colin] Lives The Life Of A Spoilt And Incurable Invalid Until The Arrival Of An Orphaned Cousin. The Two Children Secretly Combine To Restore His Mother's Locked Garden And Colin To Health And His Father's Affection.

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.