About the Book: Secret Garden, The (Illustrated with Interactive Elements)
After tragedy leaves Mary Lennox orphaned, the bratty ten-year-old British girl
is sent from her home in India to Yorkshire, to live with Archibald Craven, a
distant uncle whom she has never met. At first, life in the isolated
Misselthwaite Manor is as cold and desolate as the bleak moor outside her
window. Then Mary learns the story of the late Mrs. Craven, the estates
mistress, who spent hours in a walled garden tending to her roses. Mrs. Craven
died after an accident in the garden, and her forlorn husband forbid anyone to
enter it again,