Cricket Readers Recommend

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This book is about a girl named Mary, a "disagreeable child," who lives in India. When her parents die of cholera, she is sent to live with her uncle in England, at a place called Misselthwaite Manor. When she arrives there, for the first time in her life, she makes friends, learns to love, and finds out many secrets, one of which is a secret overgrown garden which no one has seen for ten years...

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Average: 4.9 (16 votes)
submitted by Sumayyah U., age 13
(July 2, 2008 - 8:23 pm)
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I remember watching the movie when I was really little. It was really freaky to me then. What is the mean housekeeper's name again?

submitted by Mary, age 12, Georgia
(January 18, 2009 - 12:26 pm)

Oh, by the way, Sumayyah, you did a great job with the review!!! Much better than what I could have done.

submitted by Mary, age 12, Georgia
(January 18, 2009 - 12:28 pm)

 I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted by Emma H., age 9, Cary, NC
(January 22, 2009 - 4:53 pm)

I totally  agree with you, Emma. The Secret Garden is awsome!!! I completely love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

submitted by Karli J., age 10, Kemmerer, WY
(February 15, 2009 - 9:08 pm)

I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted by Laura M., age 15, Santa Rosa, Ca
(February 19, 2009 - 3:26 pm)

We are reading this in reading! We are making boxes to look like the secret garden. Some of us (Ben and Aaron) don't want to and don't have to. Anyone else having trouble understanding Yorkshire????????

submitted by Mrs.Weberg's Reading, age 8-12, Nebraska
(May 6, 2009 - 5:35 pm)
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