When Mary Lennox's parents die from cholera in India, the spoiled orphan is transplanted to her uncle's 600-year-old gloomy and secretive estate in England. She is certain that she is destined for misery at Misselthwaite Manor. When M...

Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor after the death of her parents. When she finds the door to a secret, neglected garden and decides to tend and car...

(Audio, 2006) Other Editions... Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

When spoiled Mary Lennox goes to live at her uncle's lonely mansion on the Yorkshire moors, she finds magic and beauty in a mysterious, locked garden with the help of an invalid cousin who has the ability to communicate with animals. ...

In early 1901, fifteen years after Little Lord Fauntleroy, and ten years before the Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson wrote the Making of a Marchioness. She followed this short novel in the spring of the same year with the sequel, The M...

Written by British-born author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1905, A Little Princess tells the story of young Sara Crewe, privileged daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant. All the other girls at Miss Minchin's school...

Young Sara Crewe grew up in a well-to-do household, but she suddenly finds herself impoverished when her father, Captain Crewe, dies penniless in India. Sara is forced to abandon her life of privilege for a life of bare existence at M...

Mary, a lonely orphaned girl sent to a Yorkshire mansion at the edge of a vast lonely moor. At first, she is frightened by this gloomy place until she meets a local boy, Dickon, who's earned the trust of the moor's wild animals, the i...