The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mary Lennox was orphaned by cholera and sent to live with her uncle Archibald in Yorkshire, where she learns the secrets held in the big gray house and the Magic that comes from growing things. I can recite the entire musical, and I saw the non-musical movie that came out when I was in middle school, but amazingly, I never actually read this book. Since it’s public domain, I decided that was easy to rectify.

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Overall: I’m glad I read this for the sake of having read it, but the musical version is the story I love, and this…isn’t that. Norman and Simon really knew what they were doing when they adapted it.