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Bird Parade (Paperback)
Patrick Loehr; Introduction by Nathan Ballingrud
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Easily Burnett's most remembered and famous story, The Secret
Garden is a quick read that will leave you much wiser and more
worldly for having the experience.
Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl who is born in India
to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were
too wrapped up in their own lives. She was taken care of primarily
by servants, who pacified her as much as possible to keep her out
of the way. Spoiled and with a temper, she is unaffectionate,
angry, rude and obstinate. Later, there is a cholera epidemic which
hits India and kills her mother, father and all the servants. She
is discovered alone but alive after the house is empty. She briefly
lives with an English clergyman and his family and is then sent to
Yorkshire, England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven at his
home called Misselthwaite Manor. At first, Mary is her usual self,
sour and rude, disliking her uncle's large house, the people within
it, and most of all the vast stretch of moor, which seems scrubby
and grey after the winter. She is told that she must stay confined
to her two rooms and that nobody will bother much with her and she
must amuse herself. Martha Sowerby, her good-natured maidservant,
tells Mary a story of the late Mrs. Craven, and how she would spend
hours in a private garden growing roses. Later, Mrs. Craven was
killed in an accident, and Mr. Craven had the garden locked and the
key buried. Mary is roused by this story and starts to soften her
ill manner despite herself. Soon she begins to lose her disposition
and gradually comes to enjoy the company of Martha, Ben
Weatherstaff the gardener, and also that of a friendly robin
redbreast to whom she attaches human qualities ...
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