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The Secret Garden "For me the sovereign principleIn this beloved story, readers travel with Mary Lennox, a spoiled and sullen orphan, from colonial India to Misselthwaite Manor, a forbidding estate on the Yorkshire moors. There, in the unlikeliest of places, Mary discovers and helps restore an abandoned garden and, in the process, blossoms herself into a creature of loving kindness. Marys transformation begins when she meets a no nonsense housekeeper, a brusque gardener, and a sprightly robin that