Step into a story of friendship with Oxford Children's Classic.

This Oxford Children's Classic features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Geraldine McCaughrean, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.

After her parents' death, Mary Lennox travels to England to live at her uncle's house in Yorkshire. Sour-tempered and selfish, she is unimpressed at what she finds there. Yet she can't help being intrigued by stories of a secret garden-once full of beauty, now hidden in a tangle of neglect.

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KEY THEMES AND TOPICS

• Loneliness
• New home
• Friendship
• Gardening
• Healing

These stunning Oxford Children's Classics are the perfect addition to any young reader's bookshelf. Each classic features a personal introduction from a contemporary author, with insights on how their work was inspired by the story.

Oxford Children's Classics - the most amazing stories ever told!

If you love a good story, then look no further.

• Stories that children - and their parents - will never forget.
• Complete and unabridged text.
• Packed with bonus material, including reviews and recommendations from young Classics Champions, fun author profiles, and quizzes.

Contents
1 There is No One Left
2 Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
3 Across the Moor
4 Martha
5 The Cry in the Corridor
6 ‘There Was Someone Crying —There Was!’
7 The Key of the Garden
8 The Robin Who Showed the Way
9 The Strangest House Anyone Ever Lived In
10 Dickon
11 The Nest of the Missel Thrush
12 ‘Might I Have a Bit of Earth?’
13 ‘I Am Colin’
14 A Young Rajah
15 Nest Building
16 ‘I Won’t!’ Said Mary
17 A Tantrum
18 ‘Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time’
19 ‘It Has Come!’
20 ‘I Shall Live For Ever—and Ever— and Ever!’
21 Ben Weatherstaff
22 When the Sun Went Down
23 Magic
24 ‘Let Them Laugh’
25 The Curtain
26 ‘It’s Mother!’
27 In the Garden

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT was born in 1849 in Manchester. After her father’s death the family moved to Tennessee, USA in 1865. She started writing for magazines soon after moving to the United States and went on to write, and have published, a number of adult novels.

Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 followed by Little Princess in 1905 and The Secret Garden in 1911. These children’s books are what she is now best known for, although her adult novels were very popular during her life.

Frances Hodgson Burnett became a US citizen in 1905 and died in 1924.