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The secret garden by frances hodgson burnett abebooks. Parents need to know that frances hodgson burnetts the secret garden is a beautifully written book about two selfish, disagreeable english cousins mary and colin whose lives and dispositions are transformed when they find the key to a locked, walled garden. A 10yearold orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the. Listen to secret garden by frances hodgson burnett at. Explore our editors picks for the best kids books of the month. I recently read the book again and was taken directly back to those dusty classrooms. The first one i read was this one my secret garden. The secret garden frances hodgson burnett lit2go etc.
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