The Secret Garden

Grade

Grade 4

Author

Frances Hodgson Burnett

First published

1911

CEC adaptation of a classic work first published in 1911, adapted into three reading levels.

Mary Lennox, a lonely and sour-tempered girl, is sent to live in a gloomy house on the Yorkshire moors. She finds the key to a locked garden that no one has entered for years, and with new friends Dickon and Colin she brings it back to life. As the garden grows, so do the children.