Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Secret garden: 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.
Little princess: Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An impoverished boy, Cedric, is summoned to his grandfather's English estate when the youngster's father dies. The grandfather, a stodgy old Earl, plans to transform the boy into a docile, traditional lord, but it is Little Lord Fauntleroy who does the converting. He wins the hearts of his English relatives, and he teaches the Earl some important lessons about the meaning of nobility.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Little Mary is an orphan, come from India to her relatives in England. Her cousin Colin is a sickly lad, living in the same large cold house that Mary has been sent to. Both children are self-centered and lonely, unhappy in different ways. It is only when Mary finds a rusty old key that opens the long-hidden garden that the two learn to find love and happiness. In the mystery and beauty of nature and living things, Mary and Colin overcome their...
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