The secret garden

Laurel-Leaf books

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287 pages

Published July 9, 1987 by Dell.

ISBN:
9780440977094
OCLC Number:
18604897

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2 stars (1 review)

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.

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reviewed The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Started out good and then just went flat

2 stars

So, only after reading the whole thing did I learn that this is supposed to be a kid's book, but like...I dunno. It kinda sucks? The prose is very good, to the point where the first half of the book is excellent, but then everyone's problems are solved by the magical powers of the outdoors and positive thinking and then the book ends.

Subjects

  • Gardens -- Fiction.
  • Physically handicapped -- Fiction.
  • Gardens -- Juvenile fiction.
  • People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction.