num_pages: 276
description: Mary Lennox, lonely and unwanted, arrives from India to live with her uncle in Yorkshire.Left to herself there is little to do apart from explore the huge, gloomy house and its surrounding until, one sunny morning, she stumbles across a secret garden, hidden behind ivy-clad walls. For the first time in her sad short life she has found something to care for and determines to restore the garden to its former glory. As the garden begins to bloom and is magically transformed no one is left untouched...
language: English
title: The Secret Garden
titlecomplete: The Secret Garden
characters: Dr. Craven, Dickon Sowerby, Mrs. Medlock, Mary Lennox, Susan Sowerby, Ben Weatherstaff, Archibald Craven, Martha Sowerby, Colin Craven
genres: Classics, Historical, Fantasy, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1124869
places: Yorkshire, England, England
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
publisher: Penguin Books