This source presents excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, beginning with Mary Lennox's discovery of her parents' death from cholera in India and her subsequent journey to a large estate in Yorkshire. Upon arriving at Misselthwaite Manor, a solitary and disagreeable Mary begins to explore, eventually learning about a secret walled garden that has been locked for a decade after a tragic accident. Her curiosity grows, leading her to find the hidden key and the overgrown garden, where she begins to cultivate new life. Along the way, she encounters the nature-loving local boy Dickon and her sickly cousin Colin, and together they nurture both the garden and themselves through their shared secret and connection to nature.